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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.

Home by Train for Thanksgiving - Wednesday, November 21, 1962

My 20th Thanksgiving arrived as I rode the train toward Fairfield. Terry Brown going to Davenport rode with me and Fred was going to Chicago on the same train. Fred arranged for Ted Gnau to take us to the station, then Terry came later. I went to bed at 1:00 last night and had to get up to tell the kids having an all night card party in the room next door to keep it quiet. I got up at 5:00 again to study for the religion test, but decided to go back to bed till 6:00. The test wasn't too bad, hope I got in the 90s. I wasn't ready for the French composition we had to write - I'd forgotten about it, so had to use the recall method. We stuffed center pages into the Stylus. Not many there to read them - a deserted campus at Thanksgiving this year.

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