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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.

At Copley's Open House Boys Are Original - Sunday, November 18, 1962

Tonight I went to chapel and to Copley's open house. The boys had nice rooms as usual. You wouldn't think they would be any more original with room decorations than girls, but they are. I'm a nervous wreck. It will be good for me to go home (if I can take the change!). I read history in the Mackay women's lounge for the third consecutive Sunday, but I found it hard to concentrate. I'm weak. I want to scream. This nonsensical chatter of my roommate and her crazy boy-crazy friend. I get tired of the same old thing and crazy squealing after so long of time. It makes me want to scream.

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