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.
More Graduation Presents - Saturday, May 27, 1961
We went to town this afternoon. I got a new pair of white tennis shoes, a chain for my editor charm, and Phyl's birthday present. Clara Ann gave me a cute white shirt as a graduation present from the church. Effie gave me a pendant and Uncle Ross and Aunt Alma a handkerchief and dollar. Mrs. Woodford wants me to teach her Sunday School class this summer. I mowed part of the grass this morning.
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I've enjoyed catching up on your blog this morning. It looks like the glitch on our end is fixed and I can comment again! What a busy time this was for you -- your graduation and all the additional end-of-year things, plus Grandpa in the hospital, and Great-Grandma visiting! Wow. I love all the details about this time.
Hi Hilary,
It is nice to see your comments again. Wow is right with regard to all that was going on at that time. I remember my mom's take on it when she finally got to sit down to write a Round Robin letter about it, thanks to your dad's reprints of her letters that he gave to my sisters and me.
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