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 Solo Trip to Wellman and Back - Monday, April 10, 1961
Play practice again tonight, Act II this time. This was my first trip to Wellman by myself. I called and said "I'm coming" before I started home so they would come to my rescue if I got a flat tire or something. Mrs. Frazier has a nephew or someone at Park, but when I tried to find out the name I couldn't remember it. I'll have to find out. Really quite a few people know something about Park--especially teachers. Grandma and Grandpa brought us souviner pennants from the Kansas turnpike.
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I can't remember Mrs. Frazier. Should I remember her do you think?
Mrs. Kephart was the head of the English department when Mid-Prairie was started. Mrs. Frazier was from either Wellman or Kalona and taught a few English classes and French. Somehow she ended up as the director of our senior class play, but she did not have the play directing skills that Mrs. Kephart did.
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