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.
About 40 Girls Are Gone - Saturday, November 25, 1961
Sunny weather in the mid 60's is sure wonderful. Flo, Barb, Teresa and I played tennis in our sweat shirts and slacks this afternoon. Tonight Marge, John Blair, Ken Knarr, Nancy Ayers, Fred Kieslar and I played cards in the lounge. Lora Lee popped us some corn and came to join us. Quite a few of the girls (about 40, Mom said) are gone this weekend. I had a long sleep this morning without speech class and Viv worked the breakfast crew so she wasn't around to get up about 8:00 or 9:00. I'm reading the Cyclops chapter of the Odyssey. I remember that story - I wonder if we had it in grade school?
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