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.
We Saw the House Where Grandma Kay was Born - Tuesday, August 11, 1964
We drove to East Liverpool, Ohio, today for dinner at Ruth and Bob's. Grandma went along, and we drove along the Ohio River on First Street to see the house where she was born. John Michael at nine months is a chunky little boy. Paul looks better now. He has had some treatment for his medical issues. We drove through about four miles of the narrow peninsula of West Virginia that sticks up between Pennsylvania and Ohio. That makes 23 states that we've been in. This evening some of us drove over to the Hampton Stables - they're a really exclusive boarding place for hunt club horses.
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