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.
A Day Spent in Town - Saturday, April 23, 1960
A day that I planned to start out by doing 40 physics questions turned in to going in to Marilyn's to spend the day. I skipped my piano lesson. Mom and the kids came and got me tonight. We had a lot of fun shopping, driving, sitting, walking, etc. (I only got three physics questions done.)
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I've been enjoying your entries. Forty physics questions! Wow. I love the daily details about washing, shopping, checkups, school work, visiting friends. It's really neat to read.
West Chester may have had a small high school, but our teachers knew how to keep us busy!
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