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.
Award Winners' Pictures Were in Journal - Wednesday, June 12, 1963
I sewed some more on my dress tonight. I have one sleeve in. Phyllis, Linda, Nancy, Linda and Gary's pictures were in the paper tonight for their awards. Charles and Bob were saying something about it, and Bob's mother graduating "with honors" after he had "just graduated." The high school summer baseball coach was in the office this afternoon. We were all having a good time. They invited me to umpire at their game! I went on another shopping spree - two long sleeved white blouses, three pairs of shorts, and a platter and cream and sugar set to match the dishes I got last summer - Osincups was closing out the stock.
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So nice to have some spending money, huh?!
It was.
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