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.
President Kennedy - Friday, January 20, 1961
John Fitzgerald Kennedy is now the President of the United States. I am going to miss Eisenhower. Imagine going through college under Democratic rule! I was going to go to town after school but ended up babysitting. I made enough finances to to give Ann a dollar bill wrapped around a cartridge for her birthday. I was going to get a Farm Bureau scholarship blank in town, and Mom didn' have time, but it can wait. Mom served concessions at the girls' game tonight.
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What sort of cartridge was the dollar bill wrapped around?
It was for a fountain pen--not for a gun or a printer! Ink cartridges had become very popular in the 1960s.
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