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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.

Went to Kansas City and Saw "Tom Jones" - Wednesday, March 11, 1964

Some of the LLCs went to Kansas City tonight to see "Tom Jones," the movie that has ten Academy Awards nominations. We had enough going to take three cars. I went in the one driven by Paula Hansmier's brother. The paper said it started at 7:30 but it must have started at 7:00. This I found out from Shirley and Ted after we got back and they figured out we had missed a fourth of it. It was ridiculous that we didn't stay to see what we had missed. I must need my sleep. Mrs. Steelman and I worked on our area of our group project this afternoon. I made a poster for the ICC dance ticket sale and started numbering programs with a gadget from the library.

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