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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.

18 Girls Must Agree to Go to Hawley - Wednesday, September 26, 1962

The Hawley move has boiled down to the fact that 18 girls will have to volunteer or Dean White will draw names and say, "you go." Margie, Nancy, Bonnie, Becky, Margaret and I talked to her in her apartment this evening and had almost decided to "volunteer" and try to get a congenial group to go. Then "Pent House" discussed volunteering, then decided not to. Oh, this whole thing is absolutely ridiculous and hard on everybody but everybody. I got a B+ on my French test. Mom sent permission for me to get flu shots so I went over to get one. We had a WRA committee meeting at 4:00 and an upperclass meeting at 7:30.  

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