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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.

Virginia Looked Nice Tonight Ready to go to the Prom - Saturday, May 15, 1965

Phyllis and I spent the afternoon working out at Grandma and Grandpa's. She harrowed while I mowed grass. It rained once but just a drop - then at 4:30 a sudden rain came up and we quit for the day. I found three nice mushrooms in the corner by the little cherry tree - just when I was cautiously thinking about and on the lookout for snakes. And this morning as I was thinking about the thicker seeming Avon creme rinse - I was washing my hair - Mrs. Hahn, the Avon lady, rang the doorbell. Virginia looked so nice tonight. She went to the prom with Ron.

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