**nightly entries written by a coming-of-age girl who became a woman from Washington County Iowa**
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.
The Decade of Man in Space - Saturday, December 31, 1960
It's New Year's Eve, and I'm not babysitting, traveling or anything. But I think I'm too tired to stay up. I got a seven page typewritten start on my research paper. I worked on my Sunday School report all morning and took it up to Mr. Peters in the Dodge. It started rolling down the street when I got out. They had the Ford in town. Taking a trip always takes a hunk out of vacation, but who cares! Thus ends 1960, the first year of "The Decade of Man in Space".
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4 comments:
Just curious about how you managed to STOP the Dodge from rolling down the street...!
Since the street in front of the Peters house is flat I probably managed to get back in, stop it and put on the emergency brake.
Suzanne: Were you looking for a little helpful information to tuck away for future use should the need arrive?!
It never hurts to be prepared Ron! :)
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