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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.

Snowbound Near Bethel, Kansas - Saturday, January 11, 1964

Fred wanted me to meet the Easons, the people with whom he and Karon stay during vacations, and see some movies they took when they were in Hawaii, so Mrs. Eason came and got us and Rick Campbell and Babs Ford about 3:30. But guess what - it has snowed so much that the Easons don't want to drive tonight, so we will have to spend the night here. To say the least, Babs and I are having a slight riot in Mrs. Eason's pajamas and confiscating bobby pins. Luckily Karon had some in her nice room here which we are using. They have a beautiful home in a rural area near Bethel, Kansas, across the river from Parkville. The movies were so neat - but the bulb burned out before we finished. We four "shoveled" snow and walked in it tonight. A light plane crashed into the Telephone Building at 5:45 and killed four people.

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