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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.

French Club, Foreign Students go to Art Gallery - Sunday, October 7, 1962

This afternoon some of the French club members and foreign students went to the Nelson Art Gallery to see the French movie, "La Symphonie Pastorale." Some of them stayed to tour the French collection, but Fred, Nancy, Art, Frank and I came on back to campus. Barb Page went in with us. We got there a little late because of all the time we spent driving around Kansas City (we about got caught up in a parade) but at least I got to see some more of Kansas City. The day was beautiful and we had a ball. I went to church with one of the freshman girls.

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