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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.

Ate at the Four Winds Restaurant at the Airport - Saturday, June 26, 1965

Tonight Tex took me to the Four Winds restaurant at the airport. It is really a fabulous place. I had bought a new dress this afternoon in Macy's at Antioch (dark magenta with a white lace collar) and it really went well with the decor and atmosphere. The steak was delicious. It cost Tex over $10 (I have the receipt as a souvenir). Afterwards we went to the Plaza and went window shopping. The Plaza III was too crowded. We ran into Mr. Colliver and Sara and Benton and his date. We helped Linda move into her Parkville apartment this afternoon. I took Julia and Yoko with me to shop at Antioch.

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