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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.

Helped Portray "A Day at School" - Wednesday, May 29, 1963

Mom, Dad and I went to the West Chester School's reception for Kepharts tonight. I had to be on the program. Two teams of five each took part in "a day at school" with arithmetic, reading, spelling and history classes. We had a lot of fun and it was a really nice reception. I got to talk to several of the kids I haven't seen in a while including Rosemary. Even though she's a typesetter and I hang all my news on her hook, I never have much chance to really talk to her. I helped do chores tonight. I gave Phyl a jacket with hood (white with red gingham) for her birthday.

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