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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.

Commencement Rehearsal was Followed by Picnic - Friday, April 23, 1965

This "summer" weather is about too much. The seniors - or part of us - went to Wyandotte County Lake this evening for what was probably the "best behaved" senior class picnic in several years. Vivien and Charlie took Kathy Darch, Margaret McElwain and me. Commencement rehearsal this afternoon was fun. Mr. McDaniel, our marshall, said "McDowell, where are you going?" when I had gotten in the wrong pew. I told him, "trying to be a kindergarten student." My "bosses" surprised me with a farewell gift today - a set of eight Park College tumblers and a cute Peanuts graduating teacher card.

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