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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.

Being at the Journal was Like Old Times - Tuesday, April 28, 1964

Nothing like starting a part-time job on a full-time basis. I worked all day for Mrs. Luckenbill since she had to go to a funeral today. It was just like old times. The only things I had forgotten were the counts for headlines and how to call out from my phone. I made the rounds for local news items but didn't quite get everywhere before press time. It was surprising how many of the clerks remembered who I was. We took up just as we left off last summer. I'm afraid I'm going to miss working all the time. Phyllis and I went to the Methodist Church tonight to hear the Morrell Singers.

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