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.
Reading North to the Orient - Friday, February 12, 1960
This morning after being stuck twice in the driveway and stopping to give Moores a potato to take to the hamster in Mom's Kindergarten room at school, we finally made it to town and did the wash. We girls got our hair cut. Then I phoned Marilyn for a friendly chat. I would like to go to Washington to school next year. I didn't get too much done. I'm reading Mom's North to the Orient by Anne Morrow Lindbergh.
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4 comments:
It is so interesting to me to read your entries and think more about that time. Were you a senior in high school that year? I am reading Catcher in the Rye precipitated by JD Salinger's death last month reminding me of that time--about the same as your blog. Gosh I hope I don't get too maudlin for the "good ole days" here."
I was a junior at that time. Your word "maudlin" sent me to my American Heritage Dictionary, first (1969) edition. There is a reference to Mary Magdalene within the definition.
I too have an old American Heritage that I love. I will check it out. What I am really curious about is this about: stopping to give Moores a potato for our hamster at school?!
My mother had a hamster in her Kindergarten classroom. Mr. and Mrs. Moore did the custodial work at the school and would have been going over to the school even with the snow storm. They would have seen that the hamster got his potato.
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