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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.

Am Reading The Catcher in the Rye - Tuesday, July 21, 1964

I'm about to finish reading The Catcher in the Rye. It seems too depressing for me to get the full enjoyment of its meaning. I cut out one of the shirtwaist dresses that I've had the material and patterns for all summer. Maybe I'll get it sewn before much longer. It has been so hot these days. The air just hangs on you. We enjoyed corn on the cob and watermelon tonight. Mom, Virginia and Ann had a dentist appointment at 10:30, so I got dinner. Daddy likes his secretarial job at the high school. It seems strange to live in a home where the head of the house has an 8:00-5:00 office job.

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