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.
To My First Martini is Autographed - Tuesday, August 27, 1963
We went in to see "Summer Magic" tonight. It was cute, starring Hayley Mills. I cut out my pinkish bark cloth dress this morning, but with Virginia busy sewing I didn't get to it. I mowed some more grass. I took Oneita Fisher's book of twelve poems, To My First Martini, over to her house this afternoon to have her autograph it for me. We talked writing, etc. She's going to try to do the text for a history supplement on the 5th-6th grade level. I got to read part of the manuscript which she just started this afternoon. The college kids will like her poems. Carolyn Reed is going to live with Pattons in Hilltop House this year.
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