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.
Russia Tested a 50 Megaton Nuclear Bomb - Monday, October 30, 1961
I spent the afternoon in the library trying to read and keep awake. The latter made concentrating on The Iliad rather difficult and I'm ten chapters or so behind! I guess I'll go to bed for tonight although I don't feel too tired right now. Russia has set off its 27th nuclear test since its resumption of nuclear testing this summer. And this one was thought to have been 50 megatons - 2,500 times as powerful as those of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. I got the nicest letter from Norma. It was so nice of her to write. We have started the reproduction unit in bio. We started turning flips on the trampoline.
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Were you tense about the bomb? Or was it more like, just the old folks worried? (Sorry for the brevity but, I feel like I'm having a conversation, with the style of the diary hehe)
Jenny, I was surprised to read in my diary that I had written as much as I did about the bomb. I don't remember hearing about it or talking about it at the time.
I've been occupied with other things lately and got behind in my blogging. I've been catching up with some of your blogs. I was struck with this one because of mention of the bomb. We lived in Louisiana at that time. Everything about Russia and Cuba scared us! And even though we were just kids, we talked about this stuff a lot -- especially during the Cuban Missile Crisis because we were sure bombs were aimed at Louisiana!
Cecelia, I do remember our concern when the Cuban Missile Crisis came. It was especially hard on one girl whose father was stationed in Cuba at the time.
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