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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.

Calling Students for Journal's College Page News - Tuesday, August 18, 1964

We went out to Grandma's tonight for ice cream and cake for Edna's birthday and to show movies and slides. I finished my plaid dress this morning and wore it to work with the red leather tie belt from my blue dress that I bought at Bridges. I started my second annual task of calling people who haven't called in their news for the college page. I think we've had somewhat better response this year than last though. I'm such a sentimentalist that I'm forever recalling "a week ago today" or "a year ago today" and remembering events of last year as if they were yesterday.

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