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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.

Saw Ocean for First Time at Pemaquid Point in Maine - Wednesday, July 14, 1965

It took 22 years, but now I've seen an ocean (Mom's first time, too). We found our way down quiet Maine country highways to Pemaquid Point. We have a whole house for our sleeping quarters next to an inn where we had halibut tonight. We explored the huge rocks that line the coast here and watched the tide recede. High tide was at 12:50 today - we got here about 4:00. There is a lighthouse on the point. Ann and I sat there spellbound by the ocean, waves and seagulls for a while this evening. Everyone is so friendly here - mainly older people. We met a college student from Grinnell, Iowa who is working here this summer.

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