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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.

An All-Faiths Vespers Service Was Held Tonight - Sunday, June 14, 1964

Tonight we went to an all-faiths vespers service that was the climax of the Anniversary Week. They had it at the Methodist Church because of the rain. The retired Baptist minister, Dr. Yard, gave a very good sermon. Mr. Rich led the vespers singing. This afternoon I started writing to the five freshmen that will be my advisees. Sharon Hough came in this afternoon to show Phyllis the new Tarkio catalog. Sharon is going to go to Tarkio in the fall.

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