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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.

Nice to Be Several Years Behind Time - Saturday, October 20, 1962

There was a Sadie Hawkins dance in Alumni tonight. I was there for quite a while. I thought "Where Have All the Flowers Gone" would never end when I was dancing with one of the ELI (English Language Institute) students from Madagascar. I didn't exactly like his attitude. Jim and Merl were singing that song when we detasseled corn last summer. The Peekes are going hunting at home in South Dakota this weekend. Jim didn't have to save anyone at the pool last summer - I finally got around to asking him that. Enough boys have been looking at me lately. I feel as if I'm just several years behind time compared to the average girl, but I read once that it is nice to be that way.

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