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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.

Cake and a Phone Call For 20th Birthday - Monday, November 5, 1962

I have only ten minutes left of my birthday. It has been a different one - I guess you only turn 20 once in a lifetime! To begin with, after I did get to bed last night, I dreamed all night that I was going to go to bed at 5:00, and 5:00 came only a minute before the alarm went off and time to get up! The freshman girls have been real sweet about "the old lady" turning 20 and put up white paper streamers around my bed with their own greetings taped on them. Jean baked me a cake and we had a party in 314 tonight. Then Mary Ellen called - I thought it would be the folks - so it was a real surprise and good to talk to her.

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