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.
Election Night - Tuesday, November 8, 1960
I am so afraid Nixon is not going to be the next president of the United States. Kennedy is ahead now, with about 25 percent of the votes in. It is interesting to watch them go about it at elecion headquarters. I had a worthwhile time at college and career day, especially career wise. I went to teaching: high school English, foreign language, elementary; journalism; Cornell, Monmouth and Dubuque. I went in with Jerolyn.
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Interesting that the technology then was such that you didn't know the results the night of the election.
And interesting that you were not yet old enough to vote at 18.
It is neat how much general history is covered just by your day to day reflections.
That plus the fact that the results were too close to call until the next afternoon. According to an NPR site I looked at last night Kennedy won by only 112,827 votes out of 68,329,085
votes cast.
As you know, although I grew up in a Republican family, county and state, four years later I proudly voted for Lyndon Johnson in my first time to vote in a presidential election.
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