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 Very Nice Senior Year - Wednesday, May 17, 1961
Tomorrow is the last day of school, the last of all. I stayed after school again to lend my services to the newspaper and yearbook staffs. I didn't do a whole lot on either, but I was there. A lot of the kids were there after school tonight. I wrote the prophecy for the West Chester kids. Fred said he didn't know them well enough. I hemmed my class night dress and Virginia set my hair after I washed it. I could never have dreamed for a nicer senior year. And to think a year ago I was brooding over leaving West Chester.
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2 comments:
I am so happy you had a good senior year!
Ron, thanks. I, too, was happy to read that in today's post.
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