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.
FHA Weiner Roast - Thursday, May 12, 1960
We had a nice FHA picnic at Kleinschmidts. We left school at 3:05 and spent a lot of time hunting for weiner roast sticks, playing Flying Dutchman, having our meeting, and the weiner roast, yet were done around 5:00. Gerry, Sheryl and I gave our state convention reports. I'll crack up yet! School work!
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How do you play Flying Dutchman?!
The group forms a circle while while holding hands. A pair of kids holding hands runs around the outside of the circle. The kid closest to the circle lightly hits two joined hands. They continue running and the pair of kids whose hands were hit runs around the circle in the opposite direction. The pair that gets back to the opening in the circle first gets to run again and the losing pair joins the circle. This is a paraphrase of what I read on Google yesterday morning. You didn't really expect me to remember how to play it, now did you?
Well, I was totally convinced that you remembered it (and well!) until you gave it away at the end! :)
I was just now asking myself whether I should have typed a smile face after my response, and now you've done it for us. :)
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