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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.

Letter About Use of Newsprint - Sunday, June 30, 1963

We are going to be able to remember this summer as a hot one. Betty was here again to play "You Don't Say." We girls played badminton tonight. Mom and Dad sat on the new folding lawn chairs and watched. I took my measurements to send to Vivien for my bridesmaid's dress, but I didn't get a letter written. I wrote to the Minnesota and Ontario Paper Company at Kenora, Ontario (the Journal gets newsprint from them) to see if they might have any "run of the mill" information for a possible feature story on "the newspaper from start to finish." We didn't know the logs we saw last summer were potential Journals.

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