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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 Advent Tryst in Our Room - Tuesday, December 17, 1963

I didn't finish my resource outline until almost 4:00. I got it over to Mackay just in time to meet Mr. Carey on his way home. Such luck - also I finished my last page on the last line, so that there wasn't any gap between it and the part that I had done earlier beginning at the top of a page. I don't feel tired for having gotten up at 4:30, but I'm afraid I'm running out of time just the same. I was in charge of an Advent Tryst in our room tonight. I guess I'm the new Lucerne president. I only had time to see Fred at meals today.

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