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.
Visited Robert's Chapel Cemetery - Sunday, August 11, 1963
I've spent the afternoon and evening writing letters, both business and personal. I wrote to an Avon representative and Procter and Gamble about rush week favors and to Dr. Pai to see if I could have Mr. Carey for my advisor rather than Dr. Frizzle, to whom he said I had been assigned. We went in to the Dog 'N Suds for supper and then sat and listened to part of the union church service. However, we couldn't hear much so we came home. We watched meteorites in the northeast last night. It's kind of cloudy tonight. This afternoon we went to look at the 1850s-1906 gravestones, foundation remains and prairie grass of Robert's Chapel cemetery about a mile east of Grandma's - very interesting.
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Was this old cemetery out in the field or on a road? There are lots of them around that once were on roads long since gone, I think.
I don't remember just where Robert's Chapel cemetery was, but if there was a chapel (?) foundation there as well, it may have been near a road.
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