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.
Senate Candidate Crosby Kemper Spoke in Assembly - Tuesday, March 13, 1962
I asked Roger Rikkola to to the Hawley house party Saturday evening. Our assembly speaker this morning was Crosby Kemper, Republican candidate for US Senator from Missouri. If he becomes president some day I'll have seen him! That reminds me, I ought to see if I could see former President Truman at Independence. We went upstairs in the gym to have more mat space, barbells and equipment for apparatus class. It was like an attic on a rainy day. Phyllis, Virginia and Ann are having tumbling and apparatus, too.
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Same family as the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art?
Yes. In Kansas City we had R. Crosby Kemper Sr. (son of a banker in Valley Falls,KS) and affiliated with United Missouri Bank (UMB Financial Corporation) as are R. Crosby Kemper Jr. and R. Crosby Kemper III. Kemper Are3na was named for R. Crosby Kemper Sr., and Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art for R. Crosby Kemper Jr. as you thought. R. Crosby Kemper III is now the CEO of the Kansas City Public Library. The first R. (Rufus) was the son of William T. Kemper.
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