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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.

Lavender Flowers From Fred - Saturday, February 15, 1964

It snowed today - a real pretty wet snow. I took a picture of Cheryl and Frank making a snow sculpture in front of Stephens. I guess Fred and I will have to make a snowman. He said once he never had made one. He brought me three lavender carnations and some other lavender heather-like flowering plant - my valentine, I guess. It makes a pretty bouquet. He went with Chuck to deliver some flowers for Mrs. Lemmon. Evelyn and I went to the library this afternoon. I took Shirley's phone duty in Herr House this morning while she took her Graduate Record Examination. Fred had a bad headache and felt sick tonight so he went back to the dorm even before I was finished with supper. I've been doing algebra.

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