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.
Quill and Scroll Initiation - Thursday, March 30, 1961
I've about got it made now, I guess. We now have Shirley Bush, Junean Goschke, Tom Bauer, Curt Cox and Bob Wetrich initiated into Quill and Scroll. Everyone admitted that they were physically and mentally exhausted, so I guess I'm not alone. Now that I take time to think about it, the overall quality of the Gold Feather is really good. Lucky Washington gets all next week off and they still get out of school about when we do. Oh, I'm Hank in the play. And I wanted to be Beanie.
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2 comments:
Barbara - I came to visit after you commented on my blog. I'm delighted and intrigued with your subject because I grew up moving every 2 - 3 years and have always been curious about life growing up in one place.
I have also been enjoying and participating in a Facebook group for my 40th high school reunion in Connecticut - I've lived in Seattle for 30 years. So the contrast and connection through the internet is pretty great.
Barbara, thank you for visiting my blog and leaving a comment. After we met this morning on Judy Dunn's Cats Eye Writers site, I have read your article about social media and networking that was published last October in Seattle's A&E Perspectives. It is very well written.
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