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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.

Encountered Problems Trying to Mail Yearbook Pages - Friday, July 17, 1964

I've been delayed again. I got the yearbook pages ready to mail, but a man at the Washington post office said it would be better to send it by registered mail than insured (seems the latter is more easily lost), that do so would cost at least $6 because of the weight of the package, that it had to be sealed airtight, and that it could be addressed on one side only. He asked me if I knew anyone going down there. So after finding no envelope at the bookstore or Journal office large enough to put the package in and start over, I decided to bring it home. I guess I'll have Pat and Delbert drop it off at Park when they go back.

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