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 Drive-In Tonight - Wednesday, November 20, 1963
There are no classes tomorrow because of pre-registration, so Chuck Young and Jim took Evelyn and me to the Riverside Drive-In tonight. We got there for the end of "Spencer's Mountain" and all of "Parrish." I always liked that show and was glad to get to see it again. We went to Waid's afterwards. I went in to talk to Mr. Colliver again about physiological psychology. I could cry, cry, cry. I don't know what to do or think and neither does he. Oh, help. This is the worst yet. On top of that we had an unannounced social problems test.
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Isn't it remarkable about how we see the events just before Nov. 22 through such different glasses now? Thanks for joining the conversation on my FB author page. I love what you are doing here. What a great artifact you are creating for social historians!
Shirley Hershey Showalter, yes, knowing now what happened in the middle of what had been an ordinary day on Friday, November 22, 1963, does cause us to look through different lenses at what happened in our lives leading up to that tragic day.
@shirleyhs Once again your thoughts and my thoughts have become commingled. I thought about you last night when a rerun of a Don Shelby-Bill Moyers interview was appearing on PBS and how Bill Moyers' words re: your 2013 memoir Blush are on its front cover- "I promise: you will be transported." and, again, on the back cover, "Not since Kathleen Norris's Dakota have I read a more beautifully written or movingly told story, one whose minute particulars become a portal into universal significance." Now I did a search on my blog for the 1963 movie Spencer's Mountain which my Bill and I recently watched again. And, lo and behold, there was your November 21, 2013 comment re: days just prior to President Kennedy's death.
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