About the diary writer

My photo
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.

Bought $90.00 Worth of Pendleton - Saturday, July 20, 1963

This has been a day, to say the least. I bought almost $90.00 worth of Pendleton clothing at Seiferts - a walking suit and sweater in heather brown and a brown plaid jumper to match. I will be able to get a lot of good out of them for years. This afternoon we watched an eclipse of the sun - 75 percent here, total from Alaska to Maine. We used a pin hole viewer like you were supposed to, since people were cautioned not to look directly at the sun. Then the fire truck came past - Hough's baler caught fire. Phyl and I went back to town - I got a $10.00 pair of new black heels and returned to Seiferts to say I'd take the things we decided on. Tonight "Miss Brazil" became "Miss Universe."

No comments:

Post a Comment

Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)