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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.

Children's Library Today, Fritz's Tonight - Saturday, March 28, 1964

I spent the entire day in Kansas City, going in on the 8:00 bus and coming back on the 6:00. With the exception of an hour until it opened at 9:30 and time enough to buy lunch, get a new skirt at Macy's, and buy some cookies for my supper, I was at the children's library reviewing books. I guess I've given the whole day to children's lit since this evening I tried some illustrations with shoe polish for my book, Spills. Bob Kendrick wanted someone to go with him, Chris, John, Doug, Michael and Armando to Fritz's for Armando's birthday, so I went. I had a Coke and a ham sandwich.

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