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.
A New and Different World - Tuesday, August 30, 1960
In spite of the confusion, my first day of school not spent at West Chester was fun. We are having the seminar in American government. It will be hard but interesting. Maybe I'll master French! There are just eight in the class. I'm glad they didn't drop it. I have Mrs. Kephart for English IV, college prep. It's a new and different world and I think I'm going to like it.
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Neat to think of you starting at a new school for a new year. I'm looking forward to the journal entries for senior year. And neat to think it's the same building where I attended too!
I'm looking forward to posting my entries. I try not to look ahead in my diary so I can experience each new post as my readers do.
We had to go to school in the original old Wellman High School building. The new Mid-Prairie building wasn't even started because a bond election for its construction had failed to pass. Phyllis's senior year class of 1963 was the first class to go to the new building.
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