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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.

Have Found a Furnished House to Share Next Year - Tuesday, June 22, 1965

I think I'm all set up for a place to live next year and it should be a really nice arrangement. The young teachers renting a furnished home that the North Kansas City School District secretary referred me to in NKC are really nice. All majored in education. Eileen Painter teaches business courses and Barbara Thomas works at an accounting office. Ronilue and Priscella will be getting married and going to grad school respectively, so they'll need two more of us to help share their $60-a-month-each rent. I spent the afternoon hunting for North Charlotte - it's great to have found such a "pot of gold" at 816 East 23rd Avenue. Tex helped me make word cards tonight. I "made a buck" taking Larry McDowell to Kansas City, Kansas to get his car. I let him drive mine over.

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