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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.

Dr. Pai Said He was Busy with ELI Work - Wednesday, May 26, 1965

I got here - with no bumped fenders this time - at 3:15. I went straight to Alumni and was greeted with Dr. Pai's "untimely" welcome: "Oh, is this Wednesday?...I'm busy with some ELI stuff right now....Come back tomorrow at 3:30 or 4:00." He probably thinks I live in the next county! Oh well, it's not really that bad (except for missing Virginia's commencement) and there are things I can do on my own lining things up tomorrow anyway. I got moved into Room 311 in Hawley and am half unpacked. It's a real "cozy" bunch here for the summer term. I spent the evening with Tex. I called Evelyn - she took us to the Dari Sweet and there I saw Dee. Then we went to Jim's apartment and visited.

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