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.
Donkey Basketball - Monday, February 27, 1961
We all went up to the donkey basketball games sponsored by the Lions Club. The cute little burrows (and a few big wild "half horses") are from Oklahoma. They had a lot of stunts and races and a girls' game and a men's game. Daddy rode a donkey in the men's game. Nancy and I stayed after school to help with the paper and then got left by two minutes. Grr! I knew that was coming sooner or later. Sheryl didn't tell Larry to wait. Mrs. Statler came and got us.
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I just can't imagine your dad riding a donkey. There were so many things about your dad that I admired; donkey riding wasn't one!
Bill had the same reaction.
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