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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.

A New Blue Cotton Dress with a Print of Violins - Tuesday, July 7, 1964

I might as well give up on trying to keep track of time and worrying about what I haven't accomplished and completely give in and call it a more or less lazy summer. It seems so different from last summer, even when I'm out around the square getting local news items. I just don't think I'm putting as much into my work as I did last summer. Mom, Virginia and Ann went to town while I was at work. Mom took me to Penneys to replenish my wardrobe with a new dress. This one is blue cotton with a print of violins. Third graders should like it, too. They got rained out detasseling corn this morning but went back in the afternoon and stayed until late.

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