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.
Boyfriend Troubles - Saturday, March 14, 1964
Fred and I almost came to the parting of our ways tonight. As he says, "Nothing ventured, nothing gained," but I'm certainly not going to talk with Ellen and George sitting in the lounge. It was too cold to stay outside with just my light jacket on (he almost left me at the door when I didn't respond to his inquiry, "Is anything wrong?" I must be some kind of a hypocrite. I hope some day Fred learns a few things that will help him. The same goes for me. I went to Kansas City this afternoon. I finally picked out a light beige spring coat. I got some books (music and social studies for teachers) at a real savings.
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