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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 Visit at All-Souls Unitarian Church - Sunday, March 17, 1963

Some of us went to the All-Souls Unitarian Church this morning on another religion field trip. It's a very modern building. There was a symbolic art tapestry at the front and other works of art around the church. Very intellectual atmosphere, including the sermon on "A Liberal Looks at Lent." Quite a contrast to a week ago today. The freshman LLCs got the upperclass LLCs up at 6:00 for a surprise breakfast in the Meetin' House. We had a lot of fun. Some of us decided to go as we were to breakfast in Commons. I "refused" at the last minute and bolted over the hedge (low) toward Hawley - Kathy and Dave soon hot on my tail. The LLCs beat the PCCs - after they had beat the ACCs!!!

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