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.
Received a Byline for Article About Judy - Friday, June 7, 1963
A breeze is blowing such as to put a person at peace with the world after a terribly hot day. I guess I'll try to type up a few more weddings - Rosemary would like to get a head start on them before Monday's rush. The article about Judy Roland looked really nice and they even gave me a byline on it this time. I goofed - I said Mrs Theodore Brown was admitted to the hospital. It was Mr - she's been dead several years! I got Daddy some barbeque skewers, sort of from all of us, for his birthday. I took Nancy Statler to the root beer stand today. Yesterday I took Iris Saltan, the new girl at the county extension office, and the secretary.
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Bummer about that Mrs. Brown thing...! :)
I can almost remember Mr. Morris (Charles or Charlie) leaving the news room to go through the closed door into the press room and asking for the press to be paused while the correction was made.
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