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.
71st Column was in the Journal - Friday, March 25, 1960
About all I can say is that I'm glad it's another weekend because the school paper and library club kept me from getting any work done. A week ago at this time we must have been hearing the Grinnell College boys sing at the FHA Convention. Mom got us some horn music but we might exchange some. We're supposed to play Sunday. My 71st column was in the Journal.
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6 comments:
I liked your recent post that said you'd tackle a column for the satisfaction of doing it. It's impressive to have 71 of those -- especially with all the other school work and extra activities plus house/farm work you were doing. I'm enjoying reading these.
I submitted a sample column and obtained the role of writing a "weekly" column of West Chester High School news for the Washington Evening Journal after a Washington High School girl began doing the same thing for Washington High School. I wrote it from some time in my freshman year until the time that West Chester and Kalona students began going to Wellman as part of Mid-Prairie at the start of my senior year. At that time we began submitting a weekly news packet to the Journal, the Wellman Advance and the Kalona News.
Do you have any of the columns still?
Yes--all of them, glued one to a page in two notebooks.
That is so cool. Do you enjoy reading them?
I would if I could find them--but spring cleaning (sorting) time is upon me.
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