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.
Away From Home All Day and Evening - Monday, May 29, 1961
Here I am 24 hours later and I've hardly seen a thing of home and nary a word to Grandma Kay or any of the family except Phyllis for that matter. I went over to work on the yearbook at 8:00 this morning. I did the Quill and Scroll page. Going back to school at noon we were playing follow-the-leader. I fell down and ruined a pair of hose and a shin. Mrs. Frazier and Doug, Shirley and Charlene Bush and Phyllis and I went to Iowa City and got Mr. Frazier, then went on to Cedar Rapids for a French supper at Gene Stromley's grandparents'. Crossetts and Helen were there, too. It was real nice. Besides Phyllis's birthday, it's also Kennedy's.
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