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.
Sleeping While Family Went to School - Friday, December 15, 1961
I slept till 3:30! I only woke up three times and each time went right back to sleep. And the poor family had to get up at 7:00 and go to school after not getting to bed till 4:00. Phyllis and I went to the two boys basketball games at Kalona. We took Martha, Linda Pence and Betty. We won both games. I saw Judy Johnson and Ronna but didn't get a chance to talk to them. The house seems so much smaller than it used to - I guess from being used to the big dorm. Well, back to good old bed. We're using the Polaroid picture that Bob took last summer for the Christmas card.
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I was thinking about you and your going home for Cmas yesterday. I was buying something and the clerk was a student who struck up a conversation. He was telling me about going home for Cmas and then going snowboarding after that. I was thinking how some things stay the same and the details change. I feel certain he didn't take the train and you didn't go snowboarding but the rest of his story was quite familiar.
Thank you for thinking about me when the student was telling you his plans for Christmas.
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