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 White Convertible with a Red Interior - Saturday, August 31, 1963
What a day! Evelyn drove Flo and me into North Kansas City to shop this morning. Evelyn and I got some cute red and white striped curtains with borders of roosters and a rooster lamp for our room. Becky and I moved part of the stuff I left here for the summer over here, then I finished up with the help of two obviously rich freshman boys from the east and their white convertible with a red interior. Becky and I watched the faculty and student sponsors vs. freshmen softball game and the upperclassmen vs. freshmen softball game and kept score for the latter. There was a party in the J.R. tonight. I had fun talking to several upperclass guys I've always wanted to know better!!!
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