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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.

A Quaker Service in Apartment Basement - Sunday, February 24, 1963

I decided to sleep this afternoon, first time I've done that in ages. Because I did I was just waking up at 4:45 rather than already gone to Commons at 4:30 when Karen Haenisch called up to say to come downstairs because she had a surprise for me. Carolyn Frobig (Armstrong) was here so I got to see her for a few minutes before she and her husband left. They live by Sioux City.  He goes to Westmar College. The Quaker service that  25 of us went to was a lot like I thought it might be - in the basement of an apartment house. Three people were moved to speak in an hour.

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