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.
A Care Package is Liked by Others - Thursday, October 26, 1961
Vivien and I are about ready to settle down to a big first six-weeks biology test review for tomorrow. I got a care package from home: orange gum drop and peanut cookies, caramel candy, shoestring potatoes, peanuts, gum and a little plastic jack-o-lantern with three suckers. The girls on the floor like our family favorites - the orange slice and the caramel. This morning we had an all-campus picture taken during assembly on the chapel lawn. That ought to be quite a picture. I shouldn't be neglecting world lit and art but I'm too tired to do them, too. We were awakened at 2:45 this morning by a false phone call - our restroom mirrors and john seats were missing this morning!
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Oh Barb. That sounds like your mom's care package. How sweet. You were the first to leave home and that is really hard on parents!
I still made care packages to send to our girls but I wonder if the made at home ones aren't becoming obsolete since they are available commercially now.
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