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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.

Picnic and a Church Service - Sunday, August 4, 1963

Iris invited Phyllis and me to Sunset Park tonight for a picnic. Jo Janacek, Frances Miller and two of her friends were also there. We cooked shish kabobs and corn on the cob over the grill. It was very good. Then Phyllis and I met the folks, Virginia and Ann at the square. We four girls talked in our car while the others went to the church service in the park. I finally wrote to Marilyn - my correspondence has been terrible. Virginia and Ann went with Leets to Bishops for dinner and now are staying at Grandma's tonight. I had Linda in Sunday School class. She told me I had a good lesson, but I wasn't very well prepared.

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