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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.

Will Have a Date with Nic Tomorrow Night - Friday, June 26, 1964

Rah, yay! I'm a success! Nic asked me for a date as I was leaving work today. It seems as if the old Red Brick School has been turned into a place for parties, and that's where we're going tomorrow night. (Chalk one up for June!) We went out to Grandma's this evening. Mom and I washed the separator and picked raspberries, and the girls and Daddy rode the horses. Mom and Ann are taking Marty home now. I guess Grandma and Grandpa got home. They hadn't thought they would start back until Sunday. Charlie actually told me it was a good story I wrote about Ron Edwards.

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