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.
The Oldest of All First Cousins - Friday, July 26, 1963
We went down to Parcells for a buffet supper. There seem to be a lot of little boy cousins again. It's sort of nice to be the oldest of all my first cousins. I bought a green corduroy car coat with red, white and green pile lining today at Wards. I finally decided on it after comparing all the town had to offer, including those at the new Spurgeon store. Charles was in a pretty good mood today and seemed pretty tolerant of my ideas - not that he usually doesn't - it's just that he has to have the upper hand.
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I always liked being the oldest of the cousins too!
You and I have that in common, don't we? Allison's Drew is the oldest of his first cousins on both sides of his family, and now Natalie is.
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