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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.

"The Music Man" Won "Best Album" - Monday, April 8, 1963

Every minute counts with all the work I have to do. So I will casually write while I have a guest - Terry Seelye. She's up to ask me about Hinduism - I can't remember anything about it. I started my French outside reading, "Les Miserables," tonight. To say the least, it's about time. The Academy Awards are on tonight. The Music Man got "best album." I missed that "Iowa" movie the weekend I went to the work camp. I went down to Parkville after I covered my last Monday afternoon Stylus beat of the year and got Margie a bracelet for her birthday tomorrow. It seems awful that we are going home in two weeks - the campus is just getting nice. Spring at Park is always wonderful. But then anytime at Park is nice.

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