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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.

Watched Miss Washington County Contest - Tuesday, August 6, 1963

Phyllis and I took Linda and Abbie to the fair tonight. We watched the Miss Washington County contest. Pam Hite won, Cheryl Keating (the favorite of lots of us) was second and Colleene Beughly from Brighton, third. Peggy McKinstry gave a lovely speech and later performed her talent. She should have been Miss Iowa. I went out to the fair this afternoon from 12:00 till 2:30 since the stores were closed for the fair, and scouted around for local news items. I saw Helen Birkey, also some other kids tonight. Mom and the kids went to Cedar Rapids with Orleana and Betty to shop. They brought me a University of Mexico sweatshirt. Virginia went to the fair with Bonnie and then home with her. Ann has the flu that some of Leets had.

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