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.
Grandpa Has Resigned from School Board - Sunday, April 9, 1961
I only did about a page on my paper, not much in view of all the things coming up in the next few weeks. It looks like spare time will be scarce. Phyllis and I are home and the rest of them are over at Stouts. By the way, Mr. Kephart and Mr. Oyer, math teacher at Kalona (I hadn't known him), were here yesterday morning. They were seeing about Grandpa who resigned from the school board. Berny has pups. The play requires a pup, but I've got so much to do I don't think I'll volunteer one.
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I am curious about teachers coming to see your grandpa. Was there a story there?
The only reason I can think of is a guess, and that is that they were trying to get him to change his mind about resigning from the school board.
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