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.
University of Iowa Library Tour - Wednesday, April 6, 1960
This afternoon the library club toured the university library in Iowa City. Mrs. Kephart and Mr. Fudge went along. It fascinated me. They have telephone books for England, Scotland, Miami, etc., a room of old books and original manuscripts of Iowa authors, microfilm reading, all old magazines bound. They get 5,000 regular magazines. I wrote my column. We're at the point of half and half for spring and winter clothes.
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That does sound neat. Interesting about the telephone books.
It was fun to read about what was pointed out to us on our tour and that I wrote about that night and to think about how much things have changed.
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