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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.

First LLC Meeting - Thursday, January 9, 1964

Wayne and I presided over our first LLC meeting tonight. I guess it went all right. No, now that I think about it, I know it was a good meeting. The LLCs have really shaped up to be a leading club on campus. But it's up to Wayne and me to keep it that way. I worked algebra problems until Fred came over and helped me finish them. I baked some more cookies for him tonight. Nancy and I went to Parkville this afternoon. I haven't given Mrs. Busch so much business in years as I have this week. The newspaper episode sort of backfired when Nickel figured out what was up - and also threw water on the girls after they had finished their "project."

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