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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.

Chairman of the LLC Harvest Festival Float - Thursday, October 11, 1962

Tonight I was elected chairman of the LLC Harvest Festival float building committee, or actually of "the float" since I don't have a specific committee. But Bob, Kathy and Gloria will be working right with me and we already have a "nucleus" formed. I got good letters from Mom and Phyl today. They are moved in to town now, Miss Asby got infectious hepatitis and all of West Chester School had to get shots, Mom's cousin whom she has never seen is coming to visit. Phyl's letter was funny - except for the fact that Rusty Parcell was badly hurt in football. Jim had a real nice "Hello-o" for me when I said, "Hi, Jim," by the Mackay mailboxes.

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