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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.

Learned about Glass Making at Corning Glass Works - Saturday, July 17, 1965

We arrived back in Cleveland at 7:30 this evening. We drove past the stadium crowd on the way in, but there wasn't much chance of our going, I don't think. We watched on television - Cleveland beat Boston, 8-5. They are four games out. This morning we drove past two different houses where Grandma used to live in Elmira, New York. I sent Linda Cleveland a postcard from her hometown. I sent another to Seth of the telescopic mirror at the Corning Glass Works where we stopped this morning. The glass on display was fabulous and the glass making factory and exhibits pertaining to the industry were also good.  

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