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.
Taking Stock of a Lazy Summer's Passing Time - Friday, August 14, 1964
Boy, did I loaf today. This has certainly been a lazy summer. It's so nearly over now, that I may not even get done all I had intended to do - such as getting my photograph album completed (at the time, I can't seem to find all of my pictures); Stephens house meeting minutes written up in notebook form; mock judicial council meeting, LLC skit, and "Hell Week" Stylus articles worked on, and sewing. It's terrible for me just to waste away my days, but really I guess I shouldn't feel that guilty. I saw Edna, Merl and Martin when we took Rhoda and Mary back to Cuddebacks.
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