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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.

The Lions Club had Their Ice Cream Social Tonight - Friday, July 23, 1965

Mom got me up this morning to go with her and Phyllis over to the school to clean up the old "band mothers" shack. Daddy is president of the Lions Club now and they used the building for their ice cream social tonight. This afternoon Phyllis, Virginia and I sunbathed for a little while, although we were probably nuts to lie in the sun when it was so hot. It seemed as if Grandma Kay was the main topic of a "gripe session" this afternoon. Phyllis and I were riding our bikes on the back road tonight when Jim came along to ask us if we want to go to the car races tomorrow night.

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