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.
West Chester High School is No More - Wednesday, June 1, 1960
At 4:30 this morning Phyllis and I rose and shone and went out to help with chores. I spent my last day at West Chester School - the high school is now "non-existent" [because of its reorganization with Kalona and Wellman into the Mid-Prairie School District.] We got out at 1:30 and rode the bus home for the first time in ages. Tonight Mom, Phyl, Virginia and I went to the Captain's Table for the band supper sponsored by the band mothers with their surplus money.
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This post has so many wonderful things: chores at 4:30, monumental day in West Chester, bus home, the girls out to dinner, Captain's Table (I can still taste the golden deep fried shrimp on special occasions there.) Such a step back in time. Loved it.
That post made me realize how much my dad really needed us for chores if Grandma and Grandpa were away. The most disappointing thing about leaving West Chester School where I went K-11 was having to go to the old Wellman building since the new high school wasn't built yet. The bond issue for its construction had been defeated.
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