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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 Saw Play About Peace Corps in the Philippines - Tuesday, May 12, 1964

Phyllis, Virginia, and I went to see the school play about the Peace Corps in the Philippines tonight. The ladies' group of the Y-Mixers wanted Phyl and me to go to their picnic this evening, but I told them we'd try to next time. It rained the whole time I was out getting news. It's a good thing it started before I left home or I probably wouldn't have taken my raincoat and Phyl's rain bonnet. Charlie wasn't there today or yesterday. I thought I was supposed to get about five weeks full time "when we go on vacations in the newsroom."

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