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.
PCC Hobo Party is a Blast - Saturday, November 11, 1961
I went to the PCC hobo party with Bob Smith tonight. It was a blast. There was singing, square dancing, entertainment, sandwiches and cider, and dancing. Bob's roommate took Lou Rogers and Lou's roommate took Mickey Cook and the six of us really had a time. We were stuffing corn down each other. There was a boy there from Davenport related to the Mills Rambler place in Washington. I accomplished quite a little bit today, cleaned my share of the room, ironed two weeks' ironing, did my French and read some of the Iliad. I hurried through Grandma Kay's and Schwartzes' letters only to find there was no mail delivery because of Veterans Day.
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Kind of amazed at how many eastern Iowa connections you found at Park for a small college.
Yes - I had forgotten about some of them.
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