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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.

Mom Helped Me Pack, Took Slides - Saturday, April 20, 1963

The girls and Mom got to Park about 12:30 today. Daddy had to help lay tile so didn't come along. I hadn't quite gotten everything packed when I went to lunch with Nancy and when we got back they were in my room (as I just knew they would be, I had left them a note not to despair too much over the mess) but with Mom's help it didn't take us too long to get ready to go. Mom took a few slides around campus and then we drove up to Alfalfa Point. We drove up to Tarkio, Phyl's college, then. It's nice, too. They hadn't gotten out of the car last fall. We're spending the night at Red Oak.

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