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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.

Former President Eisenhower Spoke at Convention - Tuesday, July 14, 1964

The convention - Eisenhower's speech - drew a little more of my time than the yearbook did tonight. I can't believe that I'm almost done - no more copy to write! This yearbook ought to be superb from even that standpoint, considering that none of the organizations have been written about, at least in recent past years. Nic evidently spent most of last night along with officers watching the Skunk River for a body that a fisherman said he saw floating - but nothing more was seen. Oh well, it adds excitement to a quiet town on a summer day.

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