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 High School Graduate - Monday, May 22, 1961
Tonight I graduated from high school. We had a very nice outdoor commencement. The speaker, Dale Welsh of the First of Iowa banking company was very good. His topic was "Whither Bound - through learning, living and life." Mr. Driscoll took pictures of each of us getting our diploma. It was a little chilly out. From Grandma and Grandpa I got ten silver dollars, a $2.00 bill from Peters, and a little glass kitty from Jerolyn. Grandma Kay and I "kept house" today. We certainly had two beautiful nights after all our fears of rain.
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4 comments:
Sounds like a perfect graduation!
Yes, it was. We're sorry Annie is sick.
What a nice end to a year of hearing about your senior year!
Thank you, Ron.
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