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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.

Washington County's Pretty Women, Eligible Men - Tuesday, August 4, 1964

We went in to the Miss Washington beauty pageant tonight. We took Bonnie and brought her and Linda home. We really thought Linda had it made when Cheryl Keating was second runner-up and Peggy Grimes was first runner-up, but Pam Loeffler won. I just had a feeling Nic would end up with Cheryl tonight - and sure enough. He went with her last summer. She took the very "opportune" time the day we all three had Cokes together to tell Nic she was no longer pinned to the guy she went with in college last year. C'est la vie! Dave Vanderbilt sure looked good in the Kiwanis stand tonight - "Thorty," he said, for the price of a milkshake.

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