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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.

A Student Union Party - Friday, October 11, 1963

I'm glad this week is over. I really must settle down from here on out and really start studying. The doctor came at 7:00 tonight, so I was off work by 8:00. Margie came back, so Nancy and I helped her get re-settled and put some cat prints up in her room. I just got back from a student union party. Nancy is still there. She'll probably rap on my window to let her in (no key) as I had to with Pat - Sue let me in. Even the social problems test wasn't as easy as Gibson tests sometimes are.

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