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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.

Minnesota and Ontario Paper Company - Saturday, July 13, 1963

I got the information I sent for from the Minnesota and Ontario Paper Company in Kenora. They forwarded my letter to the Minneapolis office. They also sent seven nice photographs, so I should be able to do a real nice feature article on "The Evening Journal from Start to Finish." I also heard from Flo. She has a nice job this summer, too, at Parke-Davis in Detroit. She wants me to be thinking of plans for rush and seeing about getting some favors. Ann wanted me to get some buttons for her, so I went to McLellans, and the manager himself waited on me. We had an awful time with mistakes and changes in a wedding. The groom came in an hour before the ceremony to change around a groomsman and an usher. Then I had to call the Journal after I got home - I'd forgotten to tell them that it was to be sent to the Fairfield Ledger.

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