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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.

Helped Daddy with Typing in His High School Office - Thursday, July 8, 1965

Mom had the club ice cream social here tonight. There was a nice group for it, and for once it didn't get too cold. Daddy had a school board meeting so couldn't be here. This morning I went over to the high school with Daddy and acted as his "private secretary" by helping him with some typing. Other than the fact that I sometimes had a little trouble reading his handwriting (his "Wyse" looked like "Wipe") and starting the salaries in the wrong blanks of a page, I got along fine. I went to town with Phyl this afternoon to take my Park check to the bank, and we washed the car. She had to go back to the eye doctor.

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