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.
Ten-Year-Old's "Jerry Mahoney" Act - Friday, July 19, 1963
Barb and I were still being asked about our "boy friends" at Winga's. This morning I went down to a new little house on West Main to talk to Mrs. Matson and her little girl about a ten-year-old ventriloquist who entertained some neighborhood kids. Then I went to Dr. Stutsman's to talk to their grandson from New York and his "Jerry Mahoney." They may finally be getting around to using the story about Mrs. Bauer and her cruets, or at least I saw a proof of the picture today. I bought a pretty new orange swimming suit with white belt in Wards today ($13.00 on sale for $8.00). It looks like a life jacket.
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