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 Letter About our Meteorite - Sunday, June 4, 1961
Church was at 9:00 this morning followed by Sunday School at 10:00. Mr. Van der Voort was the guest speaker for church. I taught Ann's Sunday School class. I'm reading my I Dare You book by William Danforth. It's something different and really interesting. I finished my letter to Dr. Nagy about our meteorite. I'm sending it to the man who wrote the article and having him forward it. We watched Echo go over tonight.
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I forgot about the satellite name Echo. I remember going to my aunt's farm where is was really dark and seeing this moving star that was the satellite. It was very exciting and now seems so minor.
Isn't that for sure? Now we don't watch the international space station go past.
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