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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.

Fred's 20th Birthday was Today - Saturday, February 1, 1964

Fred said, "thank you for a nice birthday." He was 20 today. It was a beautiful day. He liked the books, Spirits Rebellious and The Voice of the Master by Kahlil Gilbran. He and I watched the Lowell-Orion basketball game this afternoon. The LLCs lost by six points. Then I stayed a while to watch him practice with the ACCs. We saw the show, "Whatever Happened to Baby Jane" but it wasn't very good. Then we went to Herr House for a birthday party. Karon had made cupcakes and served tea and black walnut ice cream. Karen and I discussed the yearbook again this morning.

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