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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 Reply From Board of Trustees President - Wednesday, May 13, 1964

I received a letter from Elmer Norrington, the president of the Board of Trustees at Park, in response to my May 2 letter to him. I replied that I was in agreement with him that the best thing we as students can do is to encourage good students to enter Park. I sent along a copy of the Stylus in which my Women's Judicial Council chairman platform said the same thing. I finally got around to writing some Narva copy about the dormitories. I just have to be in the right mood for something like that. I hope I can get in the spirit now for the rest of it and finish it. There was an insurance representative here most of the evening. Mom had to go to a meeting in Wellman.

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