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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.

Chosen as Lowell-Lucerne Queen - Friday, February 8, 1963

This is really hard to believe. I was the Lowell-Lucerne Club queen! Dave Kennedy is our king. I'm sure I really know how to perform the role of a beauty queen! I received a tiara and a dozen long stemmed red roses. The others were - ACC, John Garrett and Karen Haenisch; OAC - John Ramirez and Karen Garner; PCC - Tom Gale and Peggy Peck; and LEC - Don Dancik and Kay Donnelly. Tom Darch and Kathy Gillespie announced their engagement. Jim Hunter and I went to the dance with them - all four of us in the back seat - so I thought that was a privilege. Jim Peeke announced Mary Anne Higginbotham and Mark Fisher's engagement. I had my hair fixed this afternoon in Parkville. Margie's boyfriend Bob is down from Chicago. Oh, what an evening! They once said McDowells weren't meant to be beauty queens.

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