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.
Daddy is Back at Work - Thursday, May 25, 1961
You'd never know Daddy just spent almost a week in the hospital. He was up and doing chores and everything like normal. We were all home today except Mom, and she had teachers' work day. I got dinner, but other than that I hardly did a thing. It's nice to just relax though, although I suppose I should be making myself useful. It has been a fast week. It was kind of cold and rainy. The senior pictures were in the Wellman Advance. Yesterday's Gold Feather was good. It was the first school paper I hadn't edited, assistant edited, or co-edited for at least 20 issues.
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Your post made me remember those wonderful summer days right after school was out and it seemed so relaxed and nice.
"Those were the days, my friend, we thought they'd never end...."
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