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.
A Cartridge Pen for 77 Cents - Friday, August 9, 1963
I like my new pen, a Scripto cartridge. I wonder why! Mr. Vanderbilt sold it to me for 77 cents (already on sale for 98 cents) since he's going to lower the price to that next week and didn't want me to get mad at him! That was sweet of him. He also gave me a local news item about going to a managers' meeting in Dayton, Ohio. I bought a pair of black pointed shoes, and Phyl also "repainted" a pair of my white flats red with some of the new shoe coloring that is out now. Both pairs are real classy. Both Mrs. Fisher and Mrs. Woodford were in the newsroom at the same time. We were going to take over. Leets left today. I mowed grass tonight.
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