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.
Still Shopping for Things for College - Saturday, August 19, 1961
All the things Mom has bought me for college! Everything we got today were things I need and a lot of it we were lucky to get on sale: my iron, waste paper basket, summer and winter hats and gloves, two purses, fountain pen, key case, green belt for my dress (which I finished making tonight), alarm clock, slip, three bras, swim suit and cap, and car coat buttons. It's just like Christmas (and probably will be my Christmas!). Mom said the kids would be wearing dresses made from dish towels! I started cutting out my winter dress. I decided to do it on the back side of the material.
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I love the list of things to buy for school. It's such a fun list -- things like summer hat and gloves. I love the styles and your note later that magenta is in style.
We could have skipped buying the hats and gloves. Someone should have revised the list, because none of the girls were wearing them to chapel on Sundays by the time I was at Park.
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