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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.

Will Get Journal Subscription at Park - Wednesday, August 28, 1963

Gone is what has been the fastest summer yet, even if I have had over four months. We girls went to town this morning. I paid for my Pendletons and used my $5.00 gift certificate to get a pair of red corduroy Bermudas. I also got the blue skirt to match the sweater I got in Iowa City. I paid for my Journal subscription which Dave Elder let me have for half price of the regular $6.75 student rate. I sewed on my dress - all but the buttons, buttonholes, hem and belt - I don't know if I'll finish it before I go or not. We're glad to know the railways won't go on strike tonight at midnight. That would have complicated things.

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