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.
Letter to the Deans Was to No Avail - Wednesday, April 15, 1964
It looks as if three of my four years at Park will have been spent in Hawley. I wrote a letter to the deans yesterday with two proposals in lieu of moving the Stephens women, but the letter I received this evening makes it seem as if it was to no avail. I've been struggling with algebra - so glad it's almost over. I was the only one who went to the algebra review session again. After Gary helped me, logarithms seemed a little easier, but not much. I give up on what we were supposed to read ahead on. Dr. Neighbor had the education majors tell how we would promote what we have learned in American government to our class. Evelyn is babysitting for Griswolds.
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