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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.

Chestnut Stole, Returned Toilet Seats - Thursday, January 31, 1963

Today began when we awoke to discover that Hawley's john seats had all been stolen durig the night by Chestnut and ended when they returned them tonight. They had real cute sayings written on them in felt point pen. Third floor gave them a stare treatment, then imprisoned one (Ron Cooperman) in the end stall, and as he yelled out the window to the guys leaving to help him, we proceeded to entwine him in toilet paper. During our ed psych break tonight Carolyn and I started playing a paper cup and wastepaper basket basketball game with Gary Bruce and Bob Grinnell.

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