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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.

Went to Alumni Dinner with Mr. and Mrs. Wilbur Ennis - Thursday, April 22, 1965

Park graduates Mr. and Mrs. Wilbur Ennis took me to the Alumni Association dinner for graduating seniors tonight at the Gold Buffet. I enjoyed visiting with them. The speech by Dr. Tom Hunter, president of the Alumni Association and Vice President of McCormick Theological Seminary, and the program were nice. Each graduate received an Alumni Association certificate - benefit of a small college! I was with Seth from 10:00 - 12:30. I decided I shouldn't see him again tonight since "all's well that ends well" and it did seemingly enough so this afternoon.

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