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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.

Cool Evening Air, Breeze, and Clean, Open Smell - Monday, June 8, 1964

There is no time like the summer time. I just love the cool evening air and breeze and clean, open smell. All evening I read the book I got Daddy for his birthday. I'm ashamed of all the days I've let go by since I last worked on the yearbook. I hope those pictures come before much longer. I am presently in one of my states of depression - the kind which affects my studying during the school year. I don't think Charlie was greatly pleased with the news story I wrote for Mr. Timmons. He hasn't said anything to me about a feature story this summer.

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