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.
Park College Acceptance - Tuesday, February 7, 1961
Well, I will be enroute to Park College in September. I received my letter of acceptance today. I will have to fill out the financial form and return it and a $30.00 deposit. I wrote on eleven pictures tonight--an average of twenty lines each. Everyone says I write "books". So many kids want them that I'm going to run out; besides, I can't remember who wants them. Mom took Virginia and Ann in to get their pictures taken at Wards for 99 cents. If Phyllis gets one taken, we might put up the four of us in the last year we were all at home.
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Were those the 4 pictures that used to hang in Grandma and Grandpa's dinning room, or were those all 4 of your senior pictures?
Good memory. They were our senior pictures.
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