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.
Helping with Youth Fellowship Groups - Wednesday, December 20, 1961
Today and tonight I haven't felt so tired. I got started reading in the Odyssey. From 3:30 to 4:30 I took care of the junior youth fellowship since Rev. Peters couldn't be there because of Mrs. Thompson's funeral. We had youth fellowship tonight. He had me read them a story. This afternoon I took Norma the purple vase Mom got last summer for me to give to her. I believe I'm going to have to begin using my diary to record thoughts and not just events and facts. Regina thinks keeping a diary is bad enough - "When will you ever read it all?" and just writing down what I've done each day is worse yet.
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Little did Regina imagine...
Regina spent a lot of time in our room since she and Vivien had become good friends. One of the things they had in common was a tendency to be quite vocal with their opinions.
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