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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.

Am Typing Letters to Five Freshman Girls - Monday, June 15, 1964

We went out to Grandma's tonight to treat Duke's feet, pick peas, and I looked for a Des Moines paper that had a cute article about a fourth grade class, but I wasn't able to find it. The letter I am writing to five Park freshman girls is taking quite a while to make five copies of, even if it is only two pages long. I've still got to conclude it. I didn't realize I wrote such long letters till I started recopying this one. It doesn't seem possible that I've been out of school for almost two months. I've hardly gotten a thing done. I'm going to feel pretty dumb if I have to stay up all night in the end to finish my part of the yearbook. I do wish Karen would get the pictures here.

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