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.
Looked at a Car for Student Teaching - Tuesday, June 2, 1964
Mom, Dad, Ann and I went up to Keota tonight to look at a car (1961) for sale at Gretter's Chevrolet. It is the one Learys had. It's a pretty brown color and very nice. It seems I will need a car when I start student teaching. Skip called me at the Journal office and asked me if I wasn't busy tonight, did I want to go to the ball game at Brighton. I told him I had to work on the yearbook. Nic Walker is working at the Journal now. He's in journalism at SUI. Marilyn used to give me the inside line on him. I finally heard from Karen - the Park College mailroom didn't get my letter to her.
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Wonder what the inside line on Nic was?!
Interesting that Gretters is still a big deal. One of the boys--maybe grandsons--is on tv ads here.
Ron, I don't remember what Marilyn said about Nic, but I enjoyed his company my second second summer at the Journal office. We also went on several dates. By that time Marilyn had moved with her parents to Florida.
Ron, thanks for telling me Gretter's Chevrolet is still in business as Gretters.
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