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.
Criminology Paper Has Reached 26 Pages - Sunday, April 16, 1961
After typing every spare moment all weekend on my research paper, I have 26 pages. I thought I had 20 a while ago, and I surely typed more than six pages. Oh well, it's long enough anyway, but I sure hope I haven't lost any. Brrr! It sure is cold. It's worse now than it was for most of the winter. Virginia, Mary, Ruth and Vicky sang as a quartet for church. I didn't do any other homework. It's time to start learning play lines. If Mrs. Kephart had us we wouldn't be using books now.
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Typing was such a painful activity when compared to today. We only dreamed of automatic corrections. Actually I wasn't even creative enough to dream of such a thing.
Bill and I saw a small old Underwood typewriter in an antiques store in Weston, MO on Sunday afternoon. That WOULD have been a challenge to type on.
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