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.
School Paper - Monday, January 30, 1961
I really have myself a cold. I'd rather not speak, I sound so funny. We were able to get the school paper out the last period today. I was late as it was when Mrs. Fordyce gave me the West Chester junior high and grade school papers. I ran out with an arm load. It looked like I was stealing things. At least I never had to stay after school with this paper--seven pages. For awhile we thought we had a "non-existent" person on the honor roll!
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Any chance you have copies of the Gold Feather (?)now?
Among things I have saved, I ran across a copy of the last issue of the year of the 1960-61 Gold Feather a while back.
That is cool. Maybe you could scan it and post it?
I have not yet learned how to scan an image to a blog. However, Bill got me a new computer and a printer with a scanner for Christmas. Speaking of images, I wish I could restore the function that posts photos with comments. I have asked for help with that several times on the Blogger/Google Help Forum and so far no one has responded to my question. Then there is the frustation of strange letters and symbols showing up in place of apostrophes and quotation marks in the Recent Comments widget.
I know. It almost makes one long for the good old days of IBM Selectrics where you knew what you would get! I am alwsys running into oddities that I can neither understand nor fix on the website, blogs, etc. Oh well...
At least I was able to change the template of my blog this afternoon.
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