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.
We Are in Cleveland, Marge Can Go to Iowa With Us - Friday, June 15, 1962
We got to Cleveland at 7:30 (EDT) their time - 5:30 our time (CST). Marge's letter was here - she can come. The directions her father helped her write are clear, but even so, we have 45 blocks to go on the Outer Drive and 52 on the Congress Expressway. She lives in the heart of Chicago. But here we are on our vacation. Peggy, David and Karen are cute as usual. We had a nice driving day. We girls put up a "Smile! You're on Candid Camera" sign in our back window to entertain turnpike drivers.
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Ah, mischievous college students! Would that mischief today was as simple and innocent as putting a sign in one's back window!
For sure. I'm almost surprised that my strict father actually tolerated it without saying, "All right. That's enough now."
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