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.
Pastoral Prayer - Sunday, February 12, 1961
I pulled myself awake in time to write the pastoral prayer which I said in church this morning for Youth Sunday. This afternoon I did my chemistry. I wasn't doing so bad on the quiz he didn't grade Friday after all. I wrote on several more pictures--that awful task!--and ordered 25 for $1.00 more. I played an 18-18 basketball game with the kids. Virginia got hurt on the tying basket of a "play for 20 points" game. This has been a real spring like weekend.
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50 years later we are having another spring like weekend!
Sure enough!
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