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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.

Saw Bob, Ben and Nic Who Were At Four Corners - Monday, June 29, 1964

This was largely an uneventful day. I took a meditative bike ride tonight on the back road. I can't believe that June is so nearly over. I can't believe that it has been all of June since I was able to work on the yearbook. Honestly, McDowell! I spoke in passing to Bob See, but since he was with his father, I didn't ask him how their group made out at Four Corners. (They arrived a little noisy just as we were leaving.) Then I ran into Ben, and he said they had been told to quiet down a few times. I also ran into Nic - hadn't seen him when I got to work - and he said the same. He dictated me a local news item about his folks' Ozarks trip.

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