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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.

Lucerne Rose Tea Was This Afternoon - Sunday, February 3, 1963

Dee and I went down to Dyer's open house tonight. Tom Gale, Ron Bowman, Ron Knight, Bruce Scott, Randy Fehr and Bob Grinnell live there this year as "service" guys who run errands for the college. They have a nice layout. Their theme was the White House. I listened to the First Family comedy record which I hadn't heard all the way through yet. The Lucerne Rose Tea was this afternoon. It was very nice, except only one senior girl, Peggy Rabe, really showed up. It was interesting visiting with the faculty wives though. History is dull this time, but I guess I better get it read. We have a picture of Chestnut with our toilet seats that Kathy's taking reprint orders for.

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