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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.

We Went with Some in Youth Fellowship to Lake Darling - Sunday, May 16, 1965

We girls went with some of the others in youth fellowship to Lake Darling this evening. Phyllis, Sharon and I had been invited as "alumni." We had a lot of fun more or less just "goofing off." Even Rev. Peters was clowning around. We had a "sea" burial for a little dead mouse we found. David Johnson taught me how to skip stones on the water. There were some Parsons kids there - I thought there would be. Mom hasn't been feeling very well this weekend. She has felt tired for about two weeks now.

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