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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.

Wrote About Judy's U.S.A. Band Tour - Thursday, July 18, 1963

I spent two hours talking with Judy Roland about the United States of America High School Band. Of course, I had quite a time reducing it to what I felt should be a short article this time. Barb Shalla and I went to Winga's this afternoon after we thought the members of the Monroe, Wisconsin coffee club had more or less "cleared out." They came down to sign a truce with our coffee club (founder of the idea) after a feud was raised when Monroe claimed to be the first. Anyway, we got in on plenty of excitement and entertained two men, one of whom may have had more to drink than coffee!

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