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.
Mom Receives Her M.A. Degree - Wednesday, August 9, 1961
Mom got her M.A. degree tonight. We went up to watch and Grandma went along. Delbert helped with chores so that Daddy could go. There were about 700 getting degrees. The Ph.D.'s went up on stage to get theirs. Peters and Stouts went up for the graduation. The graduates really marched in fast. We had ice cream and cake at Grandma's for her birthday when we got back. Jimmy had the Grand Champion lamb at the fair and two reserve champions! We finished mowing the grass. Virginia and I had piano lessons. I got my Sylvania transistor radio. It's sort of a cocoa beige. I got a letter from an Iowa girl at Park.
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Busy days of late summer
I was winding up my days on the farm as my college leave-taking was approaching.
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