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.
Senior Class History - Saturday, May 13, 1961
We went to town this afternoon. I bought a white purse for graduation and some gold-printed thank-you notes, although as yet I have only received my miniature cedar chest to write a thank-you for. We got a frame (finally) for my senior picture. I finished mowing what Phyllis and I didn't get done yesterday. Tonight I wrote out the senior class history for class night. Phyllis and I did some of the wash while Mom shopped. One of the washers started running water and never did stop. I wonder if it ran over.
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I remember your pictures framed over the piano in the house in West Chester. I imagine yours was your graduation picture?
I think by that time my Mom had put up one that I had taken while I was at Park.
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