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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, Too, Have "Made Way for Ducklings" Near Boston - Tuesday, July 20, 1965

Jim, Larry, Janet, John, Betty, Linda and Shirley came here this evening. I played Touring with Larry, Janet, Linda and Shirley and the others played Hearts. They wanted to go to Iowa City or someplace, but it wasn't a very good night for driving. This afternoon I went to town with Phyllis. I got the things I had taken to the cleaners. They weren't able to clean my two red dresses. I checked out Robert McCloskey's Make Way for Ducklings from the library. The line of eight or so baby ducks that also caused us to "make way for ducklings" as eight lanes of traffic stopped for them near Boston last Thursday reminded us of the book.

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