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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.

Went to Games in New High School - Friday, November 23, 1962

I slept till 11:00. This afternoon we went to town to wash. I got some new tennis shoes, black purse, two new bras, and a leather letter holder for Mrs. Cowan for Christmas. Tonight we went to the basketball games at the new high school. Mid-Prairie won both the first girls and boys basketball games played in the new gym. It is really a nice school. And it was fun seeing the kids home from college. I had a good visit (as is possible for a ball game) with Helen and Mary Ellen and also had a chance to talk to Bob Parcell and Shirley Bush, as well as several kids from last year's class, and saw Fred and Keith.

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