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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.

Made Preparations for Style Show of Old Dresses - Thursday, June 4, 1964

There was a meeting of those who are going to model old dresses for Washington's 125th anniversary style show at the city hall tonight. Oneita Fisher was there helping take down information. It should be a nice event. Everyone who saw Great great Grandma Pearsall's wedding dress oohed and ahhed over it. When I got home Mr. Trier was here completing a form for insurance that Daddy took out for me. I hope all my "no's" for the health questions weren't lies. Mom, Phyllis and Ann are at Isabelle's for ceramics. Virginia got up at 4:30 (after babysitting till 2:00) to get ready to go to Ames with Mrs. Waggamon for a meeting of district Future Homemakers of America presidents.

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