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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.

Journal Job Pays $50 a Week - Friday, April 26, 1963

I went back in to the Journal office again this morning but Mr. Morris hadn't been able to find out if Barb Glassburner wants to work again this summer. He was telling me some more about the job - it pays $50.00 a week. I went on a shopping spree - black flats, brown shorts and print material for another dress. My grades came today - B's in everything except a C in history. I finished mowing the grass. They got out of school at 2:30 because of the small group and solo music contest at the high school. We girls went mushroom hunting in Bady's timber, but no luck. We went down to the old bridge by Parcells, too.

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