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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.

News About a Fatal Accident - Wednesday, July 3, 1963

Both Bob and Charles were out this morning when I took a call from Mrs. Meuth, the Brighton correspondent. She gave me what she had on a retired Brighton Methodist minister, Rev. E. E. Voss and his wife being killed in a car-truck accident just outside of Brighton at 8:15 this morning. She didn't call till 10:00. Meanwhile, Bob had already been to the scene and was developing the pictures. But I didn't know anything about it before then, and I don't think many others around the Journal did either. I bought a new pair of tennis shoes. It's really pleasantly cool again.

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