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.
National Honor Society - Monday, December 12, 1960
My week long journeying toWellman began tonight. I went with Sheryl to the National Honor Society meeting. We didn't get much accomplished and there were only two Wellman kids there. We might sponsor a dance at the end of the semester. I took the "freezer fresh" homecoming cookies for refreshments. I fear Mrs.Fordyce is going to get rather grouchy about the school paper. I've got about a trillion things to remember.
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I often think of Mrs. Fordyce and how she really taught me how to type. I thought she was being mean but I think she knew what she was doing. I am very grateful!
I had already taken typing from Mrs. Small before I went to Wellman but I remember from working with Mrs. Fordyce on the school paper that she knew how to be strict.
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