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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.

We Prepared Three Meals Today for Mom - Sunday, May 10, 1964

We girls got up and cooked French toast and bacon for breakfast and also got the other meals today so Mom wouldn't have to do anything on Mother's Day. This afternoon we went back to Cuddeback's woods to hunt mushrooms. Marion and Larry were there, and with Larry' help, we finally found some. Then we stopped at Cuddeback's, and later Parcells did. We had quite a time trying the pencil, needle and thread trick on Peggy and Marion. It worked, except Peggy is supposed to have one more boy. I typed up a ditto copy of the Stephens ballot. There are only three more eligible: Kay Donnelly, Nancy Avard, and Kathy Old. We went out to Grandma's tonight. Mom called Grandma Kay.  

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