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.
Vieshea at Iowa State - Friday, May 5, 1961
This is being written on Saturday because by the time we got home from Ames at 2:30 this morning I was too tired to do anything but jump into bed. Vieshea was a ball! The Stars over Vieshea production was great. In the morning we toured the home economics buildings and several others. We had a special high school students Career Day "bar-b-que" at noon. In the afternoon we saw the Cyclone Review, more buildings, and Helen and I stopped to see Karen Crawford in Welsch Hall. Coming home a semi truck came so close to our bus it broke the side of the mirror and scattered glass all along the outside of the bus.
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Was that Interstate 80 then?
No, we were on a narrow highway and an even narrower bridge. It was truly a miracle that we were able to pass each other.
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