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.
Christmas 1962 Was Truly a White One - Tuesday, December 25, 1962
Christmas 1962 was very nice. It snowed here last night for the first time this winter. It won't happen that way very often, that you get the first snow of the year right on the day for a truly "White Christmas." I got a new tan sweater, brown skirt (that I'll probably exchange), Laura Ingalls Wilder's new book, On the Way Home, red knee socks, billfold, diary, post-a-notes, silk blouse, and girdle from Santa Claus, necklace from Ann, magic mascara from Virginia, circle pin from Phyllis, note papers and star fish pin from Schwartzes, and $3.00 from Grandma Kay. We all got the game of Troke from Schwartzes. Cuddebacks, Grandma and Grandpa, and Varners were here for dinner. This seemed like a fast Christmas. But it was really a nice one.
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Loved hearing the details of what you got for Cmas.
I had to do a Google search for Troke. It has four colors of plastic castles, walls and moats plus 25 chips and is sometimes called "castle checkers."
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