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.
Reading Group Did Well on Their Seat Work - Tuesday, September 29, 1964
It's getting so that when I sit down I don't know what to write because there's so much to write. We had a half-hour house meeting tonight. Judy, Evelyn, Rosemary and I are going to see what we can come up with for some lounge furniture. Jim and Charlie came down to the education library tonight and together with Evelyn and me , drew up the final list of king and queen candidates. I was pretty proud of the results of teaching my first reading group. It was the low group, and they actually followed directions for and did very well on their seat work and work book pages.
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