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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 Slides of Canandaigua Lake, Maine and Europe - Sunday, December 27, 1964

I'm about to lose all track of time. This was Sunday but it seemed like an ordinary day since we didn't go to church. And then when we only eat two meals (more or less) a day, it becomes even more confusing. Ann Gaylord came for 4:30 dinner. She teaches elementary art and social studies. I like her. She has a mind of her own, does a lot, and is independent. She showed slides of Canandaigua Lake in Upstate New York where Mom, Jane and Grandma Kay first knew her, of Maine and of Europe. Some of us drove around the North Hills area of Pittsburgh this afternoon.

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