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.
A Scare in the Stairway - Monday, March 6, 1961
Tonight Mom did the wash in Wellman while I went to an Honor Society meeting. I tried to work out plans with Sheryl but she ended up going to Iowa City with Nancy and Lois. What a life! Mom and Virginia went to town after school to pick out Virginia and Ann's proofs at Wards. I gave my speech but practically read it since everyone else did. Phyllis scared me to death last night. She was halfway up the darkened stairs just as I turned the stairway light on.
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Every post I read with the note about your mom doing the laundry, I think about my complaining that I have to fold laundry--in my own laundry room. We really should not take anything for granted.
It was one of Mom's biggest frustrations that the well in the farm house we moved to when I was ten was so shallow we couldn't do our clothes washing at home.
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