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.
The Edge of the Great Plains - Saturday, October 5, 1963
The delegation to the Park-Tabor soccer game at Hillsboro, Kansas returned at 2:30 this morning. We had a ball. We left at 1:00 and got to Hillsboro at 5:00. We went on a school bus (memories), by turnpike to Emporia, and then west across rural Kansas to the edge of the Great Plains. At the last turn-off we were 37 miles from El Dorado. We had a "Commons" lunch in the town park, but some of us supplemented by going to a cafe. The game was thrilling, a 3-3 tie after three 5-minute overtimes. We stopped in Emporia for snacks at the restaurant where the team stopped for dinner. It was a high school type thing on the college level.
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Great story about your Tabor trip. Trips, basketball and soccer games with Tabor are associated with many memories. Thanks for sharing and jogging my memory.
Hi Clifford. It is special to know I have tapped into your memory bank. I appreciate your support as a reader of A Park College Diary.
Sounds like a fun outing. Love the idea of bringing up high school memories but now on a college level.
Since Tabor was regarded as Park's soccer arch rival, that trip was organized for some of the Park team's biggest supporters.
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