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.
Will Like Teaching of Music and Teaching of Art - Thursday, September 3, 1964
Evelyn and I drove to Riverside this afternoon to a body shop to get an estimate of my damage - only $7.50 including labor! Then we went to the Red X and got a cake and things for punch for my Stephens birthday party for Judy Cox. I got the car insurance form done (luckily got ahold of the lady this morning) and sent home with a "letter." I think I'm going to like Mr. Chronister's teaching of music and Mrs. Bender's teaching of art. We had a good opening convocation. Evelyn and I walked up to the LLC party at Alfalfa Point tonight.
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$7.50... my how times have changed. Just got my car back with over $1,000 worth or repairs...
I couldn't believe it when I read the amazingly low amount our insurance company would be charged in 1964 - including labor. I hope your car looks as good as it did before the girl backed into you.
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