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 Might Have Pneumonia - Saturday, August 13, 1960
Mom still didn't feel good so she went to the doctor this afternoon and got some shots and medicine. She has been in bed since. It might be pneumonia. Tonight we saw the Echo I satellite go over. Launched yesterday or so, it has had the President's message bounced off it. Jane and I got supper. Phyllis and I mowed the grass. This morning we looked at my college catalogs and "talked college."
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I had forgotten about those first satellites. We went out to my aunt and uncles farm to see them.It was very exciting.
It is always so disapponting to be sick with guests who come to visit once a year or when you go on vacation.
Isn't it something that we did that. Now most of us don't ever go out to watch Sky Lab passing overhead.
I know Mom felt terrible about not feeling well starting the day her sister and family came from Pennsylvania.
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