About the diary writer
- Barbara McDowell Whitt
- Kansas City, Missouri, Alexandria, Virginia, United States
- ~ 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.
Nikita Khrushchev Supposedly Has Resigned - Thursday, October 15, 1964
I've decided the third graders are getting tired of just straight seat work for their Indian unit, so I'm going to stimulate interest with some beads, moccasins (from Leslie), Indian corn, and some "foods" I hope to get from Bushes Market in the morning. The freshman girls up here had a birthday party for three of the girls and invited Stephens. This afternoon at 4:00 those of us in teaching of art went to Antioch Junior High to hear a lecture by a noted art educator, Maude Ellsworth. This morning I took all three reading groups. We had a lot of fun. Really. Khrushchev resigned, supposedly.
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Sounds like that Indian unit us shaping up quite nicely!
I wish I could remember what foods I found at Bushes the next morning - beans, squash - but probably not buffalo meat in 1964.
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