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 Need to Write a Research Paper for Dr. Pai - Tuesday, September 22, 1964
These days are unbelievable in speed. I hate to think that my college days will soon be over. We met with Dr. Pai this afternoon for our education seminar. He said we won't meet every week. We have to have a research paper on one aspect of a school system. It seems rather unnecessary on top of everything else. I once had nightmares about having to have Dr. Pai as a student teaching supervisor. The third graders liked my "Crows and Cranes" game that I made up for physical education for elementary teachers. Marcena fell down and hurt her arm, but everything worked out fine and she kept on playing.
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