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~ About: A 1961-65 Park College Diary ~ As a high school girl and then a college coed in the first half of the 1960s, I wrote nightly entries on the pages of one-year diaries. In January 2010 I began transcribing the entries into a blog and gave each one a title. I grew up on three farms within 30 miles of Iowa City and the University of Iowa with its Iowa Writers' Workshop. As the oldest of four daughters, in my diaries I sometimes referred to my sisters as "the kids" or "the girls." We helped our parents, but we also had good, wholesome fun - a characteristic I took with me to Park. Park is 300 miles southwest of West Chester, Iowa, in Parkville, Missouri, on the Missouri River 10 miles northwest of Kansas City, Missouri, and across the river from Kansas City, Kansas. In 2000 Park College became Park University. Today Park's flagship campus is in Parkville and there are an additional 41 campus centers across the nation. Park was one of the first educational institutions in the United States to offer online learning. My last post was on May 22, 2018. I may be followed on Twitter @BarbaraMcDWhitt.

Shopping in Washington - Wednesday, August 8, 1962

We went swimming this afternoon while Mom washed. I went uptown then and bought a pair of red slacks to replace my worn out red shorts. I'm getting too fat for some of my clothes. I hope I can still get into those blue slacks I got from Donna Marshall. Mom got me a new girdle, slip and panti-slip (one of the new fads). I mowed the front side yard tonight so it would look nice for missionary meeting tomorrow. Mom had a committee meeting at Ralston's this morning so I helped get dinner started.

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