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.
Forgetting How to Shift - Tuesday, April 12, 1960
I had to drive the Dodge out to Grandma's tonight. I forgot how to shift! Daddy had to get me started! Mrs. Kephart is going to send some of my writing to the National Council of Teachers of English for a possible scholarship. I wish I could find my Education and Survival essay, but I've probably written better things since. I'm going to have to get some current events ready for Friday.
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I can remember learning to drive a stick shift and being so worried that I would get stopped on a hill and not be able to get started again!
I was so glad when my dad bought a 1957 automatic transmission Ford which I could usually drive instead of the standard transmission 1949 Dodge we still had.
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