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.
Determining Who Will Bring What to Our Room - Friday, August 3, 1962
Friday again already. I've almost decided to give up trying to do anything this summer except in the clothes line. Marge wrote and said in none too considerate words she didn't think we needed the pole lamp room-divider, then proceeded to say she was bringing a 4x4 stuffed donkey some guy had given her. I wrote back about the same to her, only softening to my old self in the last paragraph. We have two new cousins, Martin Andrew Estep and Calvin Ray Varner, born August 1st and 2nd. Cuddebacks leave tomorrow on their trip to Virginia.
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2 comments:
Oh please,a stuffed donkey?!
I don't remember if it ended up making the trip from Chicago to Parkville or not.
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