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 More Mending, Sewing and Hemming - Monday, September 4, 1961
We all seem to get more done on a day like Labor Day than on a regular vacation day. It didn't seem like Monday though. I did a little mending, sewed my coat buttons on firmer, hemmed a skirt (a new one - a black one like the green one of Mom's I got last spring) and a dress. Phyllis and I got most of the grass mowed this evening. I should finish my clothes repair tomorrow and then I've got to pack.
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Do you still sew? I've always been impressed with people who have that skill. I was the kid who struggle in home ec when we had to make our pillows. Today, I can't even sew a button on a coat.
Jen, I don't sew any more unless a button needs to be put back in place. I was lucky to like sewing. I learned to sew from my mother, my 4-H leaders and my freshman year of high school home economics teacher.
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