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.
Went to a Verdi Literary Society Reunion - Sunday, May 31, 1964
As if in answer to Phyllis's boredom and my secret goal to go out with someone at least once a month, Ben Leeper (I thought it was Davis until I introduced him wrong to Mom) and Skip Robinson came past tonight and asked Phyllis and me to go to Washington with them. I was riding my bike at the time. Skip is a graduate of Parsons (but eight years ago). We saw the show, Captain Newman, M.D. This afternoon Mom, Phyllis and I had an interesting time hearing Karl Libe and other old timers reminisce about the Verdi Literary Society meetings they used to have at Memorial Miller School south of Washington. Oneita Fisher organized a reunion of it at the same school.
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