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 Beautiful, Coveted Diploma - Tuesday, May 23, 1961
My beautiful diploma. "If....you will have earned that coveted diploma, and what is more, you'll have a well-trained mind." We had an "If" poem with that conclusion in the April school paper. I got dinner for Dale today. Grandma Kay did yesterday. It was fun using the new stove. I got a bracelet from Schwartzes to match the necklace from Grandma. I hope Grandma is enjoying her visit here after our many years (three, I guess) of coaxing her to come when she thought she wouldn't make any more trips out here. Mom took Daddy up to Iowa City to a specialist and now they have him in Mercy Hospital.
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Was your dad able to see you graduate or was he still in the hospital - I don't think you mentioned him coming home.
He had to miss my graduation since he was still in the hospital.
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