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.
Cartesian Coordinate Systems - Wednesday, February 5, 1964
If I didn't spend so much time at meetings I might be finished with my algebra. But since we had an LLC meeting and I went to a Cosmopolitan Club meeting to see what they might want to do about the Spanish Fiesta, I'm still graphing Cartesian coordinate systems. I guess I'll have to get up at 6:00 and try to finish. I got a Valentine care package from home - candy, cookies, pink popcorn balls, and some Avon shampoo and rinse. I did algebra while Fred ate cookies tonight. He has a psych test tomorrow. He's already had art and physics tests this week and will also have one in heritage. I got an A- on the arithmetic test.
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Love the idea of the care packages coming. Thinking about what your mom had gathered together for you. Away but not out of her mind. So sweet.
Yes, Ron, that was so true. I have to admit though, your comment "Away but not out of her mind." comment threw me for a moment.
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