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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.

Spent Morning with Phyllis at Tarkio, Left for Iowa - Monday, April 26, 1965

Phyllis, her roommate Ellen and I left Tarkio about noon after the girls had taken care of some of their last business and got packed. Phyllis showed me through the new science center where she worked this year and the main administration building. The summer term students were registering today. We saw Rich Shugart briefly and saw that his family had made it to Tarkio after being at Park for commencement. We got here about 5:10 - 24 hours after the folks left Park (which was 24 hours after they got there).

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