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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.

Took Nancy and Sherion to Dog 'N Suds - Wednesday, July 10, 1963

It seemed like July 10 has some significance. What happened on July 10? I had gone to the State Café for lunch today but it was too crowded, and then Nancy and Sherion were coming along, so I took them out to the new Dog 'N Suds stand to eat. This was the day to stuff Journal inserts again. I had a lot of local news items for a Wednesday it seemed like - they always manage to come from somewhere. This turned out to be one of my busiest mornings, though it began on the slow side, sort of, anyway.

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