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.
All in Family Will Have Glasses - Friday, June 17, 1960
As of this afternoon, our entire family will have glasses. I got my eyes checked. I'm getting near sighted. I'll just need them for distances and not for reading. I bought Karen a white lunch cloth for her wedding a week from tonight. She called me today to see if I could help with the reception if I'm needed. Daddy is still out at Grandma's cultivating. I finished my 24 college information letters. Mom got Miriam's and another thesis at the library.
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Barb,
Did you live in the yellow house in town at this point?
We were still in the farm house a mile south of West Chester. We moved in to town when I was in college.
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