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 May Basket for a Teacher - Sunday, May 1, 1960
We had youth fellowship. We had a filmstrip, "Boy Meets Girl." Frieda and Gary had a baby boy, Mark John, today. Everyone went out to Grandma's at chore time but me. I worked on my history report. I bet I'll be the first to hand mine in. I finished Moby Dick. The Bauer twins brought Mom a May basket.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
2 comments:
I didn't think until May 1st that maybe the kids should do May baskets. We made them as kids -- seems like a fun idea. I still don't know how you kept up with everything! Babysitting on top of writing, school work, church activities, chores. Amazing!
It seems to me that making May baskets is a public school and family thing whereas May poles may be a private school way of ushering in the month of May.
Post a Comment