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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.

Arriving for a Weekend Work Camp - Friday, March 8, 1963

Hal drove Chris, Gidget, and me to the Kansas City weekend work camp being held at Northside Presbyterian Chapel, and we were the first arrivals at 5:00. We soon met Kim, one of the two co-pastors here, and Jan, our cook and woman chaperone. There are 19 of us from seven colleges - Park, Southwestern (Winfield, Kansas), El Dorado Junior College, National, Stephens, MU and KCU. It's a nice bunch of kids. After supper we had an orientation session and discussed problems of the area with several social workers and innercity church ministers. Then we watched a junior high teen hop here and went in two groups several blocks to the high school one. They are part of the social program for the kids in the "projects."

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