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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.

Another Saturday in Kansas City - Saturday, October 19, 1963

Well, I spent another Saturday in Kansas City. Two in succession is really unusual for me. Charlie took Carol Patterson, Karen Garner and me in at 10:00 this morning. The girls had their pictures taken and I returned Evelyn's and my proofs and finished the yearbook contract, more or less. They still have to make it out and send it to us. Carol and I ate lunch at the cafeteria. I shopped some, then met Viv and Charlie and went with Viv to pick out head pieces for the wedding. I never did get to the library, but came back with them. I got some cranberry culottes and a striped blouse for an outfit on sale. I went to the show, "My Six Loves," with Ev.

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