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.
Am a Basketball All-Star - Wednesday, February 19, 1964
Today I got a note in my box about a picture of basketball all-stars being taken tonight. That's the first I knew about being an all-star. They had to re-schedule the pictures since not enough showed up. Evelyn is babysitting for Griswolds and is going to stay all night. Fred's ACC number 1 team lost a heartbreaking one-pointer to the ACC number 2 team tonight. I still think Fred is self-centered. I may be, too, but at least I'm conscious of the fact and can remember to include the other person, too. He doesn't act aware of the fact. Fred can be nice, too, but so much of the time he just thinks about his own interests.
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