This afternoon from 1:00 till 2:00 I visited with Carolyn Frobig Armstrong, her little girl, and girlfriend from Denver who saw my name on the room list when they stopped past the dorm. They live in Bethel Kansas. Then I wrapped Bonnie's Avon order to mail to her. I treated Insuk and Yoko at Hauber's after we mailed it. This evening I typed a paper for Joel. I helped Mom Hunt by buttering cinnamon toast for the hungry crowd at 10:00. There's a Presbyterian youth conference here this week. The girls' singing is coming over so clearly from Herr House. It brings back fond memories of social club serenades. The remedial reading kids dramatized their story today for Dee's group - more fun!
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.
Looked Down from Window, Saw Boys Looking Up - Wednesday, June 16, 1965
Today I just did "little" things around here. I sunbathed, wrapped a copy of the book about Park College, College Pioneering, and mailed it to Daddy for Father's Day, called the Avon lady, and her daughter brought in Rita's, Bonnie's and my products over, and typed a three page letter home. It was so funny this morning when I stuck my head out through the restroom window (open about a foot) and looked down, only to see three boys looking looking up! I turned around only to see in the mirror the best example of embarrassment on my own face I've ever had occasion to see.
Car Had Flat Tire which Tex Changed and Said to Replace - Tuesday, June 15, 1965
This morning when I went out to get in my car, the left front tire was flatter than a pancake. It had been low for quite a while. Tex changed it for me and at lunch persuaded me that it wasn't worth fixing. So we went to NKC and bought a new one for $13.30 at a Goodyear tire sale. I checked over the phone about a few more apartments, but all three had been rented. The library's slowness in getting the Dispatch out adds to the difficulty. I persuaded Insuk, Ruth and Yoko to go to the J.R. tonight. Insuk needs to get away from her studying more.
Saw Apartments Near Oakwood Manor School - Monday, June 14, 1965
This afternoon I drove out toward the area of the school where I'll be teaching to look into the matter of a place to live. Most I didn't care for the looks of or location, one the manager wasn't there, one didn't have furnished apartments, and one I saw was $150 a month. Then I went to the NKC library and "arrived" there going the wrong way on a one-way street. As in the movies, there sat a police car in front of the library! The policeman was very nice to me - maybe it was my pleasing personality that caused him not to give me a ticket! I felt proud of the results of today's reading group.
Hawley and the MDCP had a Hamburger Fry Tonight - Sunday, June 13, 1965
Sandy Odo asked me this morning if I would help usher at church, so I did, along with her, Paul and Tex. Mrs. Hansmire had called me Friday about "looking after" a high school girl coming this afternoon to Room 313. She didn't come till tonight, when I had gone over to the library. What would Park College do if I suddenly said "No" when they asked me to do something? This afternoon I worked on posters for word discrimination. They'll be good to have for third grade. That reminds me, I got a letter from Mr. Fuller yesterday saying I'll now have 23 pupils this fall. Cleveland won one and lost one game today. Hawley and the MDCP (Military Degree Completion Program) had a hamburger fry tonight.
Talked with More Members of the Park Class of 1915 - Saturday, June 12, 1965
Tex and I went back to a baseball game this afternoon. We picked up the free tickets Mike had left in the radio and press office and enjoyed seats directly behind home plate. The game began at 3:15, was stopped from 5:15 to 6:00 because of the rain, and finished about 6:30. I must jinx the Cleveland team, because they lost again, 7-0. Tex really knows baseball, of course, so this has all been very interesting. I took Insuk, Yoko, Julia and Ruth to Antioch this morning. Tonight Evelyn and I went to the St. Joseph Symphony concert in Alumni and a reception afterward at Copley. I talked with more 1915 Alumni.
Saw Cleveland v. Kansas City with Tex and Cleveland Pitcher - Friday, June 11, 1965
The most amazing thing happened tonight. I had mentioned to Tex that I wanted to see a Kansas City baseball game sometime. I told him today that Cleveland was in town so we went tonight. And who should relieve the pitcher - Mike Hedlund who Tex went to school with and played in the minors with in Texas! He sat with us for six innings when he finished dressing after leaving the game. Afterward we took him and a Cleveland bullpen catcher, "Tom," to Sydney's for hamburgers and the rest of their mammoth orders. And Mike gave us free tickets for tomorrow and Sunday! I talked with some interesting "class of 1915" alumni at lunch.
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