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.
President Finds Us Peeking at Dancing - Saturday, February 17, 1962
I got my photo reprints and a letter from Pat in the mail. The reprints are the best so far from the three companies I've tried. I wrote another round robin letter to send to Mary Ellen. Vivien and I went down to peek through the lounge door window at the dancing tonight and who should catch us in the act but the president of the college! Quite a few of us didn't go to the party. I did French at the library this afternoon while Marge read her anthropology. Flo trimmed my hair some tonight.
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I wonder what the prez said to you when he "caught" you peeking at the dance?!
And I wonder what Vivien thought or said since she had just spent the previous weekend with Antoinette at the president's house while he and his family went to Chicago.
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