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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.

Interviewed Mrs. Bauer About Cruets - Friday, July 5, 1963

This evening I called Mrs. Roy Bauer, our neighbor, to ask her when I could interview her about her vinegar cruets and she had me go over tonight. She has 193, collected since 1954. Until this summer when one of the clerks in town introduced us, I hadn't even known Mrs. Roy Bauer to see her! And we were even neighbors by then. Mr. Bauer has caned 63 chairs - the one I caned took long enough! It was a profitable hour spent. I also made up for my leaving work about 3:30. There just wasn't any more to do though. Well, we and Washington have finally gotten our rain - even if it did rain on the 4th.

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