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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.

Stephens Girls are a "Thinking" Group of Individuals - Sunday, January 31, 1965

I'm so proud of the twenty Stephens girls (that includes myself) that I can't see straight. After a long drawn-out week, Dean Miller came up tonight and told the five girls what their "punishment" would be: The car [of one of them] to be taken away, their keys to be taken away for a month, 11:00 hours weeknights and 12:00 weekends. I thought that for two "factions" within the dorm, we let her see that we are a "thinking" group of individuals. So for the month of February "Mother McDowell" will be enforcing the law. For once, there will be no room for doubt.

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