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.
Chattanoogie Humor - Tuesday, March 28, 1961
The band concert was tonight. I about split a gut all through Chattanoogie when Donna Graf, one of the ninth graders, who plays baritone with me, dropped the music under the platform. I felt like a fool, but just the same I had a hard time controlling the laughter. I have just finished typing my conversational essay on The World Turns. Phyllis and I did chores till time to leave and Virginia and Ann finished up. We dressed out at Grandma's. The school paper is done. Hurrah!
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Love your student ID addition. Really sets the tone for the times of the blog.
Suzanne did that for me when she was here for the weekend. She also removed the "next blog" and other Blogger buttons at the top of my blog.
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