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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.

Saw Movie of Our Lady of the Angels School Fire - Tuesday, December 1, 1964

"I'm eternally hungry half the time" - latest McDowell remark! But I am. We had a house meeting tonight to make plans for our two Christmas parties next week. We drew names for our "50 cents worth of _____." I wrote my book review this morning. I hope I didn't make any gross errors or glaring omissions. We had an SNEA meeting tonight. Some of the guys (Jim, Chuck and Dave) from the fire department showed the movie of the December 1, 1958 Our Lady of the Angels school fire in Chicago in which 92 pupils and 3 nuns died, six years ago today.

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