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.
A Piece of a Log for Teresa'a Brother - Saturday, December 2, 1961
Some of us are here holding down the Saturday night dorm front. Gee, these fast weeks! I can't get over it. I spent a lot of the day taking notes on my art reading. I helped Ann DuBois make a batch of cookie dough for Christmas cookies for the Dearing party tomorrow night. We didn't have speech class (third week in a row on Saturday) because the Meetin' House was locked. This afternoon Teresa took me over across the little brook below Hawley to an old tree log that has rocks grown into it. We brought back a piece that she wants to send to her brother in New York.
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