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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.

Was Told "I Love You" - Sunday, January 12, 1964

We woke up about 9:00 to eat Mrs. Eason's delicious pancakes and bacon. While Babs and I helped her with dishes, Fred, Rick and Mr. Eason shoveled out the driveway and then they drove us back to campus. We got here in time to change clothes for dinner and I reset my hair for 40 minutes. I took some good natured teasing about having eloped with Fred! He has a pretty new suit (tan coat and dark brown pants) that his mother got him for Christmas. Two things happened today that were pretty nice in meaning to me - Mrs. Eason asked Fred to return thanks at breakfast. He also told me, after dinner, that he loved me.

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