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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.

Am Voted into Stephens Honor Dorm - Wednesday, March 20, 1963

This morning I found out that I am among nine of 29 eligible girls voted into Stephens [honor dorm] for my junior and senior years. They voted last night on the ones they wanted in: Sylvia DeFriend, Evelyn Gatton, Barbara Page, Margaret McElwain, Nancy Ayres, Kathy Gillespie, Liz Ralston, Karen Bentson and myself. The number was rather limited so it seems like even more of an honor. They're leaving several openings in case some of their previously accepted members like Merry Lee Dean and Lou Rogers come back. We had an LLC party in the Brig tonight. We had a lot of fun bowling and playing pool.

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