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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.

Life is a Wonderful Thing - Saturday, January 12, 1963

I went to the basketball game tonight with Jean Burright. We lost although we were tied at one time. We played John Brown University from Arkansas. This afternoon I took some clothes down to clean. Except for the fact that I ruined the belt of my light blue dress (the plastic back caused it to shrivel, and part of the gold chain broke off and fell through a hole in the machine), everything came out pretty well. I slept twelve solid hours last night. I haven't done that in just ages. I'm such a sleepy head. Some day I probably won't ever be able to do that again. Oh, life! Life is too short to be unhappy. I must remember this all of the time. It's such a wonderful thing.

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