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.
Getting Acquainted with Journal Job - Tuesday, May 7, 1963
I started to work for the Journal today. It's going to be a really nice job. Mrs. Luckenbill, whose place I am taking for the summer, helped me get acquainted with the job. I wrote a local, did some typing of club news, engagements and took "society" phone calls, went with her around the square (lots of locals can be gotten from the store people) where she introduced me to everybody, and started the "10-20-30-40 Years Ago" column for Saturday's paper. I ate lunch at the root beer stand. Tonight Ann, Mom, Dad and I went out to the bottom land at Grandma's to walk and enjoy the evening while Daddy dug a ditch.
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What a great summer job, it sounds like!
I really enjoyed my summer taking the society editor's place and writing for the Washington Evening Journal. The next summer she needed to work half time, so she worked in the mornings and I worked in the afternoons.
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