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.
Last Year's Narva is Here - Tuesday, September 3, 1963
I helped with registration again this afternoon. Some of the freshman boys had to wait forever for the registrar's office to send their class cards down, so Becky and I had good talks with them. I especially enjoyed Gerald Taylor, a transfer student. Vivien brought over the pattern for my bridesmaid's dress in cranberry velveteen. She found a pattern that will go well with her dress. Evelyn and I went down to P. Ville this morning. I have placed orders for the LLC rush party refreshments - (my idea for once) - root beer floats and graham cracker, marshmallow, chocolate sandwiches. Tonight we finished up invitations and worked on favors. The Narva's here. I got to see it early - it's really nice - and convinced Carol to distribute them tomorrow rather than Thursday after convocation.
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Love that you called them graham cracker, marshmallow, chocolate sandwiches - I call them S'mores :) Sounds like a great snack though!
I looked up S'mores on Wikipedia before I made my post. Apparently the first published recipe for them appeared in Tramping and Trailing with the Girl Scouts in 1927. They weren't called S'mores (short for "some more") until 1974 according to Merriam-Webster.
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