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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.

Hem Lengths: 23 Inches or 24 Inches - Thursday, August 30, 1962

This morning I fixed up several things - buttons, tucks and a hem. I guess I'll leave my 24 inch hems the way they are, though one inch can really make a difference and I like 23 inches better. There's argument in the fashion world this year as to whether or not the hemline should be lowered a speck. Our water isn't working. It keeps shocking us when it's turned on and today Ann and I even got shocked when it was off. We keep it off except to run enough water to use. So we girls went out to Grandma's to wash our hair. Schroeders' kids are there. Virginia and Phyllis helped Isabelle serve lunch at the church to the West Chester teachers.

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