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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.

Have Saved by Making Dresses - Friday, June 21, 1963

I left the Journal office at 4:15 today and came on home. Then Mom, the girls and I drove down to Fairfield since Peggy had called us earlier this week about a fabric sale at their fabric shop. I got three nice pieces, one dark pink for a dress and some orange for a slim dress and orange and pink stripe for a jacket to go with it. In Spurgeon's I found an off-white dress of nice material that I couldn't resist buying for $5.00. I'll have made quite a saving on the dresses I make since I got the patterns so cheap, too. I ate at the State Café again. I had to wait for a second lunch - the waitress dropped mine!

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