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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.

LLC Scavenger Hunt and Square Dance - Saturday, March 7, 1964

The LLC scavenger hunt and square dance were a lot of fun but exhausting. Fred is so hard to get along with at times. I think he likes to be the "star," and he likes to be contrary, too. Several times when things got goofed up during the square dance he would have the circle almost mad. He didn't come till 10:00 because he went to a youth banquet in Platte City to give a talk on Hawaii. I had lunch at Gattons and then we went to the Antioch shopping center. I got a navy rayon and silk jumper and polka-dot blouse for Easter. There was a news bulletin this afternoon that one of the boys' dorms at Tarkio burned.

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