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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.

This Has Been a Warm and Friendly Christmas - Friday, December 25, 1964

This has been a nice Christmas. We got up at 9:00 and had a brunch of corn fritters and sausage. We left Cleveland at 11:00 and had a nice two hour drive along the turnpike, listening to Christmas music on the car radio and noting the winter landscape of Allegheny foothill country. It has been a gray and rainy day throughout most of the world this Christmas Day, but it has not dampened the spirits of what has seemed to be a warm friendly Christmas. We saw the Independence Messiah Choir on TV (I saw it being televised) and listened to the Magnificat (Phyl played her flute for it at Tarkio). Tonight we showed slides. George's mother is here, too.

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