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.
50-Star Flag for Church - Sunday, October 2, 1960
We had youth fellowship. We're going to start having our meetings on Wednesday night for a while. We went up to Peters afterwards for popcorn. I can just see my grades (and the senior float) about Friday. I'm going to have to buckle down before all my French gets away from me! We had Communion today. The church has a new 50-star and a new Christian flag.
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Funny to think of the 50 star flag being new!
Considering that Alaska became a state on January 3, 1959 and Hawaii on August 21, 1959, I think our little church did well to get them when we did.
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