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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.

Cookies, Pizza and Date Nut Bars - Wednesday, January 8, 1964

Fred gave me a cute little stuffed skunk holding some flowers. We named it Flower. This afternoon Evelyn and I went down to Parkville and got some bake and serve cookies, pizza mix and date nut bar mix as evening snacks for Fred and Jim. I baked some of the cookies tonight. This dorm is up to tricks and good times again. Some of the girls - we can't all go - are going to go down to Nickel early in the morning and fill their porch with newspapers. We had an ICC meeting at 6:30 and at 10:30 a dorm meeting. I also worked algebra and am now going to bed at 11:40.

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