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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.

Park's College Bowl Team Left with a Police Escort - Friday, February 5, 1965

This has been quite a day - "unreal" in ways. It was fun to see the College Bowl team gathering for their departure with a caravan of twelve cars plus a police escort. I guess they made quite a spectacle at the airport with their signs and singing "Hail, Hail Park College"! Park finally got around to publishing the Dean's List. [On a three point scale] my 2.846 average was second in the senior class (Vivien had another 3.000). It really is rather neat! It was kind of funny today when Kay and I were discussing the Nickel auction sign ("Life CAN Be Just!!") and turned around to find Dean Miller standing behind us.

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