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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.

Party to Raise Money for March of Dimes - Thursday, February 14, 1963

Tonight from 12:00 to 2:00 in the J. R. we had an all school party that just developed during the evening after some kids heard on the radio that a Kansas City disc jockey was organizing a hike for the March of Dimes and planned to go to the Parkville fire station. Copley got in touch with them and arranged for them to come to the college. We donated a "shoe box full" of money. I spent the evening with Jim and he asked me to "The Interns" tomorrow night! I have a religion test in the morning. Guess I won't get much sleep tonight if I get up at 6:00 to finish studying.

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