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.
Spoke with One, Then Another Young Man - Thursday, June 25, 1964
We girls and Marty went in to the swimming pool for a while this evening. We put up two more loads of hay in addition to the two the others did this afternoon. Boy, did I interview a neat guy this afternoon - thanks to Jan Heck. And perfect timing, too, since I didn't have anything else pressing to be done. We had previously planned that I would talk to him when he came back to town. He's Ron Edwards from Ainsworth who travels the world as a tour director for a travel agency in California. He reminds me of Jim Ader at Park and is one of the neatest guys I ever saw in Washington County. I told Nic he should tame down his salutations when he greeted me with "There's my lover" today.
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