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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.

Spoke to David About Vanderbilts Article in Life - Thursday, August 20, 1964

We're finally getting a little bit of rain. It's been so dry all summer that we haven't mowed the grass more than six times. Dallas was doing a story for the Journal and said the county's loss due to the drought will be several million dollars. I bought a roller perm to try before I go back to school, and a new night shirt. I got Mom and Dad a set of drinking glasses for us to give to them for their anniversary. David Vanderbilt is still my friend. I called his attention to the article in this week's Life magazine about the Vanderbilt family fortune. He said someone else had mentioned it to him, too.

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