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.
Dr. Pai Called About Organizing Reading Program - Thursday, May 20, 1965
Dr. Pai called me this morning. He wants me to go down early to get things set up for the reading program, so I told him I'd try to go down next Wednesday. Now I guess I really can consider myself the coordinator as well as the organizer. Sometimes I feel indispensable. Everyone seemed to like the skit that Phyllis and I organized for Grandma for the social circle. Phyllis spoke the part of a foreign student in Spanish, and a beer can completed my "delinquent" characterization. The others did well, too. Mrs. Mangold wants Phyllis to teach the junior high Bible School class since I won't be able to.
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