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.
Graduation Dress Arrives - Friday, May 12, 1961
This is the beginning of the last weekend of my public school days--all of those wonderful weekends. My graduation dress came today. I'm so glad, because I had just gotten a card that said there'd be a slight delay. I mowed grass some and did some chemistry and French. I'm going to read awhile in Of Human Bondage. We "messed" around with carbon again in chemistry. Yesterday I blew the stopper out of a test tube--somehow--it wasn't being heated at the time. Patty Holecek took a notion to write just when I bet my letter got to her.
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I hadn't thought about this before but your entry reminded me of how we used to order things because there was no store in Washington that had the item, usually at the Penney's store from the catalog. Here we are 50 years later and ordering things (this time online) is a big part of shopping again. We love OnlineShoes.com!
I believe we ordered my white graduation dress from an Aldens catalog.
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