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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.

We Had a Family Reunion at Grandma and Grandpa's - Monday, July 19, 1965

We had a family reunion at Grandma's tonight. Lorahs, Leets, Varners, Parcells and Cuddebacks were there besides us. Varners are going back home tomorrow. Last evening as I was going back through pages of this diary, I had a phone call - it was Tex calling from North Texas State University where he has been since Saturday. If he can keep a 2.5 average (on a 4.0 scale) he won't have to pay back the loan that he got through his church until after he graduates. I mowed some grass until the rain came, then wrote to Tex.

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