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.
Phyllis Registers for Her Junior Year - Monday, August 14, 1961
Tonight we went to the club picnic in the park. Mom was in charge of it. Mom, Virginia, Ann, Edna and the Estep girls went in to reserve the pavilion this afternoon. The kids went swimming. Phyllis went over to register this afternoon with some of the kids. (I can remember how frightened and uncertain the two of us were on that day last year!) She is going to take English, chemistry, Spanish and history. I sorted out my clothes. Most of them are good enough to take to Park. I have about ten things to shorten! We did my suit this morning.
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Are they to shorten because styles are changing? I'm amazed at the time spent sewing. I love the green corduroy shoes!
I would guess the skirt lengths were going up. My memory is that I wore the green "tennis" shoes mostly with the green gingham dress I had made.
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