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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.

We Are Home Again After Five Nights Away - Wednesday, August 12, 1964

We arrived home safely at 7:15 after what was a very pleasant trip, seemingly one of the easiest ones we've ever taken. We left Schwartzes at 6:00 their time. Now that Interstate 80 is open across Illinois, the Chicago Heights and Jolliet area was the only place where we weren't on divided highways. West Virginia yesterday, Iowa today. The Estep girls stopped past this evening. Then Marion came to get them. Aside from the suicide on the square Sunday morning of a man in Washington, I guess nothing too exciting has happened.

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