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.
National Honor Society Initiation - Monday, May 15, 1961
National Honor Society initiation was tonight. It was, thank heavens, very impressive. I gave out the certificates. Mr. Brown read off the new members' grade point averages, although we wish he wouldn't have. Phyllis was second highest with 95.8 and Linda Pence had 96.9. Daddy, Virginia and Ann went over, but Mom had a shower for Wanda Orr to go to. Mrs. Leary gave me a nice half slip for graduation. Today we started planning decorations for the hobo party, and I volunteered for the commencement decorations.
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I remember NHS iniation was so impressive I was scared!
That was impressive.
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