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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.

Games and Stunts with Freshman Girls - Saturday, November 17, 1962

We are playing all sorts of little games and party stunts tonight - "the scissors crossed game," etc. We made and ate my pizza earlier. I spent the day (except for when I cleaned our room) studying for my religion test and working on my research paper. The effects are beginning to show - I guess I could use a little more sleep - a birthday party on the floor last night (late) made it hard to sleep. These freshman girls are cute. Margie and I should have been counselors. The only thing is, we're not being paid. A dreary day.

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