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 Special Gift - Thursday, January 5, 1961
I've just taken time out to write Carol a birthday card. I believe our day off yesterday was truly a special gift for me. Without it, I never would have gotten my research paper on Extension of Suffrage done. I had a slight nose bleed in English class but managed to stay in class. Oh--everyone is so tired. Maybe we're under the effects of radiation "drug" or something! We learned how to use slide rules in chemistry.
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I loved slide rules. What an amazing invention and totally obsolete thing. I would bet most people don't know what they are.
I remember trying to line up the little lines and wishing I could be doing something else.
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