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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 America at Herr House - Saturday, September 7, 1963

It has been a fast day. Evelyn and I got up at 8:00 and cleaned the room. She went home at 10:30 to spend the day. I worked on a ladder dummy for the yearbook but didn't get very far. Karen and I spent the afternoon pooling our thoughts on yearbook matters. I helped Flo make 40 felt LLC badges. Then Evelyn and I watched the Miss America pageant at Herr House when we weren't able to persuade some guys to watch it rather than a football game in the J. R. I really must start to study since that's why I'm here.

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