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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.

Picked Out a Clock-Radio as a Graduation Present - Saturday, May 22, 1965

I went in to town with Mom for a little while this morning. I got a few things I needed - including a new pink nightshirt, checked my bank balance and had Carol continue my Journal subscription for its last "three weeks and two days" that I still have coming to me. I picked out a light gray beige clock radio at Payne's for my graduation present. However, we've been having trouble getting the different buttons to work properly. I'll have to go back and get some directions. The girls wanted to get a hair dryer with Washington stamps so we picked that out. I helped vacuum and "talked school teaching" with Mom this afternoon.

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