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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.

Individual Yearbook Picture Taking - Monday, November 4, 1963

We just had a house meeting. I've gotten myself into making invitations for open house. Another obligation made today - refereeing three basketball games with Nancy. She and I went to look at the Danger - Closed broken down Dearing footbridge tonight. We're not trying to flunk out or anything. Mr. Carey showed me how to use the opaque and overhead projectors today. Mr. DeCloud began taking individual Narva pictures - only 60, but 20 ahead of any other first day at Park. Mrs. Nix sent the cranberry velveteen for my bridesmaid's dress. In ten minutes I'll be 21.

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