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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.

A New 16 MM Movie About Park College - Tuesday, December 11, 1962

It was one of those really cold winter days today. In assembly, after President Morrill gave some nice thoughts on Christmas, we saw the new 16 mm Park College movie. It was very good. It would sell me on Park College any day. I was in it at least three times, all from the fall of our freshman year: helping Vivien move into Hawley, in the snake dance, and watching the Hell Week softball game. I think I'll go to bed and get up early. I feel beat, and have a slight cold, too, so it will do me the most good. I did an article on the Military Degree Completion Program and hurried it down to the print shop at 5:15.

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