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 Drowning in the Skunk River - Sunday, July 10, 1960
We were down at Bishops this afternoon. Don was the only one home. He had a phone call that Louie Janacek drowned in the Skunk River. Tracy Janecek and Vince Smith were along, and one of them must have drowned, too. Gary Sheetz told Marvin Yoder that it was the Janacek boy. Things sre still indefinite. We had Gary Reif for the church speaker. Ann had dinner with and spent the afternoon at Denise's. Miss United States won the Miss Universe contest.
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