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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.

Made Cookies For Children's Home - Wednesday, December 26, 1962

This afternoon Phyllis, Virginia and I and the rest of the girls in the Sunday School class went out to Grandma's to bake Christmas cookies for the children's home in Ottumwa. Jeff was so cute and "helpful" rolling out cookie dough with his own little rolling pin and so forth. These days seem to go so fast. I wrote a few more Christmas cards. It doesn't seem to me like Christmas should be past already, I guess because it was so late in the season before I could even think about it. I patched my blue slacks where I caught them on a nail down at the gym, but I see it didn't hold.

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