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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.

Looked at Our Slides - Friday, July 12, 1963

We looked at our slides of Park and Tarkio, Phyl's graduation and our trip to Canada tonight. We got our own screen and projector last spring. This was Virginia and Phyllis's second day of detasseling corn with the two Lindas, Betty and Mary. They are on a crew so get to ride a machine. Some of the Wellman girls work in the same fields, over by Prairie Flower. I wrote a letter to Carolyn Reed (to find out what's going on at Park) and finished one to Margie. Terry Seelye sent me and a picture she took of Margie and me a year ago February but just now got developed.

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