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.
Benjamin Fairless Died Yesterday - Tuesday, January 2, 1962
Here I am at Park a fast and interesting 24 hours later. Pat, Delbert, Jeff and I drove practically "non-stop" all the way from Grandma's house to Hawley. We left at 7:00 and got here at 12:30. I was the fifth one to check in at Hawley. We had just arrived in my room (the hall looked deathly still) when I heard the chimes. They hadn't been working in the first three months we'd been here. It was so nice to hear them - now it is college. This morning on the car radio we heard that Bejamin Fairless died yesterday. That beats all - but I guess I'll have to give my speech in memory of him.
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I googled Fairless to see who he was and found on the first page two of your blog entries!
Yes, it is interesting. I about fell off the back seat of the Varner's car when we heard that Benjamin Fairless had died on the day I was taking notes from his biography.
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