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.
The United Presbyterian Mission Program - Sunday, June 25, 1961
We went to church tonight to hear two Iowa City men explain the United Presbyterian mission program. The U.P. colleges were mentioned some. We've just learned the exciting news that Grandpa gets to turn the first spade of dirt Wednesday in the ground breaking of the new high school. It just occurred to me that I never indent when I start writing in this diary. Great discovery, huh? Scott Calvin's name is no longer Scott Calvin but Shawn Calvin. They changed it before it was recorded.
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Well, thankfully, that explains why I can't remember having met a "Scott" Parcell.
Ron made the same comment following my June 23, 1961 entry, the day I wrote that Peggy and Keith's baby was born.
That was my thought too, Bill!
Ron, after Bill read my June 26 reply to you, he said, "That's not what Ron said." Now you chime in again saying, "That was my thought, too, Bill." This has turned into a "He said, I said, he thought, I thought..." conversation. Enough, already, guys!
Well, what I really said was...
Okay. You are right. On to more important things like getting ready for college.
OK, Gentlemen! No seriously...just keep running up my # of Comments. Go there. Do that. Anytime. Especially now, when I could use a high Comments count every now and then.
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