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.
Chalk Drawing - Sunday, February 5, 1961
I babysat for Fudges tonight while they went to the Sunset Inn in Muscatine. The rest of the family and Grandma and Grandpa went to the Wellman Baptist Church to see their minister do a chalk drawing. Peters weren't even there and they were the ones that suggested the youth fellowship go and get the picture for having the most there. We were at Grandma's for dinner for the February birthdays. We talked to Leets when they called Grandpa for his birthday.
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I remember the chalk minister and can almost remember his name!
I guess we did not have enough there to get the drawing for our church.
Jerry Belz. Scary that I would remember that.
Well, as my dad used to say, "You couldn't prove it by me."
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