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.
Col. John Glenn Completes Three Orbits of the Earth - Tuesday, February 20, 1962
This has been a day to remember. Colonel John Glenn orbited the Earth three times today in the United States' first orbital space flight. The J. R. was full of people watching television when the rocket ship lifted smoothly off the pad at Cape Canaveral about 8:45 this morning. Tonight I was privileged to hear "one of the best vocal organizations in the whole wide world," the Robert Shaw Chorale as they presented Bach's "The Passion According to St. John" at the Kansas City Music Hall.
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Barb,
We were watching this story of John Glenn last night on NBC news, trying to remember if we really remembered seeing it. I do remember the thrill of that time. When you see what a small first step it was it is hard to realize just how exciting that moment was. The thing the news made clear last night was how brave it was given the uncertainty of its success.
AND to hear Robert Shaw Chorale doing the Bach St. John Passion in the Music Hall...wow! That is really a nice day of contrasts from Bach to space.
Yes, and when I put "...in the whole wide world" in quotation marks I wondered if I was quoting someone else or myself.
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