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.
Hearing Man-in-Space Proceedings - Wednesday, July 19, 1961
We listened to records until 2:30 in the morning. I woke up ahead of Helen and Linda in time to hear the man-in-space proceedings on the radio. (Birkeys don't have television.) They postponed it because of the weather again, though. Helen brought me home around 10:30. We had piano lessons. We had to send Ann down to the ditch to run down the Dodge before we could go. I took the kids to see The Absent-Minded Professor tonight.
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I am sure you noted how ironic that today's post was about Man-in-space and today the shuttle heads home on its last journey.
"Commander Ferguson called on Americans back home to tune in to the final landing. 'Take a good look at it and make a memory,' he said, 'because you're never going to see anything like this again.'"
Ron, thank you very much for your timely comment. This has been one of those days when we only heard/saw part of the evening news so I (we) had failed to realize this was Atlantis's Homecoming Day and the bitter-sweet final touchdown. I'm getting goosebumps typing this. Wow.
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