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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.

Heard the Cleveland Orchestra on TV Tonight - Thursday, December 24, 1964

It took us just under twelve hours to get to Grandma Kay's house in Cleveland, about 4:00 our time. We had rainy weather most of the day, but it was very pleasant here - we girls and Daddy walked around the block in our exuberance. Phyllis and I each took a turn driving and Daddy drove at the beginning and end of the trip. Virginia cut my hair with manicure scissors as we drove along. She said we had people staring at us. We heard the Cleveland Orchestra and other good music on TV tonight.

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