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.
Ellen's First Birthday Party - Sunday, October 20, 1963
This afternoon Evelyn and I went down to Brisch's in Parkville for Ellen's first birthday party. The rest of the Gattons from Parlville were there, too. Bobo, as they call Ellen, is so cute. I can remember a year ago at the Sadie Hawkins party when Hans was telling about the new baby. (Evelyn was the one who drove Margaret to the hospital.) I went to the library tonight and made something of a start on my "homicide" paper. We have a 1913 Park graduate, Mrs. Cassat, in our guest room for two weeks. She and Miss Fishburn are going through old pictures and records in the Park House to try to get them in order.
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