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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.

Won a Free Game for a Hole in One in Miniature Golf - Monday, August 17, 1964

The McDowell, Cuddeback and Estep cousins went miniature golfing tonight. My score was terrible. I took all six strokes on almost every hole and had a score of 46 halfway through when par for the whole course is 47. But that didn't stop me from getting a free game for a hole in one at the end! After we went to the root beer stand, Merl, Jim, Larry, Phyllis and I decided to wash Estep's station wagon in the Kwiki Car Wash. More fun! Mom talked me into ordering a $14 wool suit from Yonkers. I chose red.

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