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.
Ann is Home From Camp - Saturday, July 6, 1963
Mom, Daddy and Phyllis went up to get Ann at Camp. Virginia stayed here to babysit this afternoon at Joyce's. I almost could have gone along, as I really didn't do anything after 10:00 anyway. I wrote as much as I could of the cruets feature article without my notes. This afternoon I sewed my orange dress. I finished it all except for the hem, but since it's pretty short I'm going to sew on a facing for the hem.
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2 comments:
Love the progression of the orange dress! Also I'm really enjoying your newspaper article topics.
Thank you, Hilary. I was thinking about that dress when I walked past the fabric store on the on the Plaza this morning. I enjoyed writing the feature stories I did for the Journal.
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