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 Girl From the Pipeline - Thursday, September 1, 1960
School was dismissed at 1:35 today because of the heat (as though we live in Africa). They should have done it yesterday and the day before. There is one girl from the pipeline in our class. Then Jerolyn, Helen, Colleen and I are the only senior girls "left" from Chester. We have been lucky not to have too many assignments so far.
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By "girl from the pipeline" do you mean her parents were working on the pipeline so she moved to IA with them?
Yes, that would be true. I don't remember her and was surprised to learn she had come along with her father. I think all the workers were men in those days. I'm guessing her mother came along, too.
It reminds me of what we now call "migrant students" Funny to think they had the same thing in IA in 1960!
For sure. I wonder how many different schools she might have attended as the work on the pipeline moved east and eventually northeast, as I recall, to Chicago. I think the pipeline originated in Oklahoma.
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