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.
1961 Reads the Same Both Ways - Sunday, January 1, 1961
Here it is 1961, one of the few years that can be read upside down. I'll finish "school" and start to college and goodness knows what all else. It seems as if at least half of our New Years we are at Cuddebacks. We were down there with Stouts tonight for ice cream. We had the annual meeting in church today. Phyllis was elected Sunday School secretary to take my place since I'll be leaving. I did some more typing on my research paper.
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4 comments:
What a year of expectation it was for you to look forward to.
Oh and I loved the comment that the year could be read upside down!
Thanks, Ron. I am looking forward to experiencing 1961 again through daily diary posts. I appreciate so much your support with your comments.
I have read that 1961 was the first year since 1881 and last until 6009 in which the numerals that form the year look the same when the numerals are rotated upside down.
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