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.
Mom Starts to Summer School - Wednesday, June 15, 1960
I just finished eating one bad strawberry. Just so it doesn't make me sick. Mom, Phyl and I spent most of our spare moments today fixing them. We froze five quarts. Mom started summer school with classes in arithmetic, child psychology and art. She went up with Mr. Fudge and Mr. Neville. West Chester is about the only town left on standard time. We went to the mother-daughter luncheon at the Methodist church.
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Your mom was amazing to do three classes, drive to IC on her summer time off while still doing all the house stuff. I guess you all were old enough to help but still quite a commitment
My sisters and I really do wonder how our mother did all that she did and all the while have such patience. Her round robin letters that you kindly copied for us are a testamonial to that.
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