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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 Write About MYF Trip to the UN - Saturday, June 6, 1964

Marion Timmons and Linda were here this evening. The MYF got back from their UN trip early this morning, and Mr. Timmons wanted to tell me about it for the Journal. I have a feeling [a family] at Crawfordsville will have fits when they see the Journal's treatment of their daughter's wedding. In the first place, the paper was pink for Ridiculous Day, and then they had the audacity to to put it on the want-ads page. And then it was cramped in with a two column head, no kicker, cut line or photo credit. Ooh. I procrastinated again - honestly, I need a shot in the arm of something. We bought the brown car. It's still in Keota, however, having seat belts installed and a few minor repairs made. Daddy wants to let me take it to Park to use for student teaching.

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