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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.

An Upperclass Hell Week Assembly - Wednesday, September 11, 1963

We had an upper class Hell Week assembly this afternoon. It sounds as if it should be pretty good this year. The boys will have to wear suits and good shoes with no socks and the girls heels without hose to class. If someone wants them to, they'll have to go back and change to their regular "Hell Week" attire in between. We had a meeting of "those interested in canoeing" tonight. Flo and Miss Konkle more or less instigated the planning. Quite a few of us plan to take the trip nine of us did my freshman year, if we can get adequate transportation to the Platte River and enough canoes, on Sunday, the 21st.

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