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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.

Met Iowa Attorney General Hultman - Monday, August 12, 1963

I've just finished writing to Evelyn. She's going to be a great roommate. I have a feeling we might be more alike than we may know. Even though it has been a fabulous summer, I can't wait to get back to Park. Mom and the girls were in town this morning. Several of the clerks asked different ones of them if I was their sister or daughter, and then Cheryl and Jan told me they had sold "your sister" things. ("Which one?") "The one with the size 4 1/2 feet"- a pair of shoes, and "the one that looks like you" - a swimming cap. Margie sent me a postcard. She saw Dr. Hauptmann vacationing in Wisconsin. I shook hands with the Iowa Attorney General Evan Hultman when Mr. Everetts brought him to the Journal office this morning. The folks and Phyllis have already met him.

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