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.
Dress-Up Clothes - Tuesday, January 31, 1961
The first month of the year is gone already. They took more yearbook pictures again with our dress-up clothes on. Junean, Shirley Bush, Curt, Tom Bauer and Bob Wetrich are new Quill and Scroll members. This time I got in the annual staff picture. Our senior pictures are finally done at Driscoll's. Maybe I can get mine tomorrow night. I'm going to have to buckle down harder on my school work. Start reading harder, longer, faster, with more meaning. I must choose a sociology research topic.
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