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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.

A Broken Leg in a Soccer Game - Saturday, March 21, 1964

Some of the LLCs went chocolate bar selling this morning. Wayne and I sold 40 between us in Parkville and in the neighborhood out by Evelyn's house. Diana, Peggy and Terry went in our car, too. Altogether the club has sold about 120 of 1200 bars. I was in the process of selling Stan Shedd one at the soccer game when 15 feet from us we heard a terrible pop and saw John Garrett in terrible pain. Stan was told to get his car so he quickly handed me a dollar and I shoved two candy bars into his hand. But he only wanted one, so Becky handed him 50 cents in change. John's leg was broken - almost the same spot on the field where Hal broke his three years ago. Nickel won the game. I saw "West Side Story" with Nancy.

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