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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.

Interview With Architect Ends With Phone Call - Monday, October 8, 1962

This afternoon after French I went to the public relations office to see if Mrs. Young had any news. I ended up interviewing a visiting library architect in the dean's office. The dean left him with me - then the president called to have him go to the soccer game with him, thus ending our chat! Interesting, this reporting job. I spent an hour at the game (we beat KCU 7-0) and then helped the LLCs serve the OAC dinner. Tonight Edna, Theresa and I practiced for modern dance - we finally decided to use "Good Night, Ladies." It had to be a song. I'm sacrificing a lot living in Hawley. We should be living with upperclass girls, not freshmen.

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