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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.

Hotter Today but This is Coolest July Since 1891 - Wednesday, July 21, 1965

Gradually it's getting cooler - from 95 to 84 to 79 - but it doesn't feel much different. I guess we're noticing today's heat since this has been the coolest July since 1891. I didn't do much today. I wrote an eight page letter about our trip and enclosed three postcards to Mrs. Cowan at a cost of 45 cents, cut out more oaktag letters to use for tracing construction paper letters for third grade bulletin boards, and did a little reading. This evening I rode my bike and looked at my three college yearbooks. Shirley is here now and Betty and Linda will be coming, too, to spend the night. Virginia has gone to a show with Bonnie. Mom and Dad are helping freeze Lions Club icecream.

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