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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.

Received a Very Nice "Care" Package - Wednesday, January 20, 1963

Hawley is having a surprise party for Copley tonight but I don't think I'll go since I'm a sophomore and none of the other three of the "four" are going. As soon as they get gone, I think I will go mail my letter home, however. Nancy and I went up to the health center tonight to see Margie. While we were there George called up and wanted me to stop past Nickel to read two more galleys that weren't ready this afternoon. I went to vespers tonight. The history test wasn't bad. I might even get a B on this one. Dr. Hampl wasn't there for French so we have to go in the morning. I got a very nice "care" package - my dress, some fondant, peanuts, crackers, date bars. Oh, I'm WRA secretary.

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