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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.

Cub Scouts Rang School Bell - Thursday, July 4, 1963

Well, I enjoyed one of my few days of the summer that I didn't have to get up to go to work or church. We went over to the school this morning to open it up and get some 4th of July cookies and Kool-Aid ready for the Cub Scouts who came to ring the bell as part of the nation-wide bell ringing project. It was very nice. I cut out my orange dress this afternoon. Tonight we went in to the "Let Freedom Ring" pageant of the American Revolution put on by the United Presbyterian Home. Grandpa had a part - a patriotic marcher. It was good - fireworks afterwards. Then we went to Cuddebacks.

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