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.
Shopping, Swimming and Seeing Horses - Monday, August 10, 1964
This morning we womenfolk went to a nice big shopping center to look around. I found a gold coachman skirt to add to my "sporty" wardrobe. This afternoon we went swimming at a pool in Wildwood Park. It wasn't fancy - cement and kind of dirty water. We girls came back with George and Daddy after they came down, and stopped past a riding stable to see their horses. The girl who is going to be Sharon Hough's roommate at Tarkio and lives in Pittsburgh is here to talk with Phyllis tonight. I think my female hormones are unbalanced. I've suddenly broken out in my worst cases of pimples in ages, and now I feel depressed.
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