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.
Presidential TV Debate - Monday, September 26, 1960
Here comes the age-old drudgery of getting out a school paper. We have to have a copy for each child in the district (1,200). At least my complaint against selling them "won out." We had our first float committee meeting. I stayed after school to help with the paper. I took notes on the history making hour-long presidential t.v. debate. We have a unit chemistry test tomorrow. I got an A on my government test!
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Was that the first televised presidential debate?
Yes, it was, between John F. Kennedy and Richard M. Nixon.
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