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.
Our Dorm Room Will Be Colonial Style - Saturday, September 30, 1961
Vivien and I went to Kansas City and we now have our drapes and rug. We decided to do our room "colonial style" with our Martha Washington bedspreads so got white ruffled curtains and a braided rug in sort of green, yellow and tan. I bought a camera for $10.00 that Mom had said I could get for part of my birthday present early. I got a color film for fall pictures of this beautiful campus. We ate at a Chinese restaurant and had fried rice, chow mein, egg rolls and almond cookies. It was interesting - sugarless tea in cups without handles. We didn't get back till almost 7:00 on the Greyhound. I got an A on my audience characterization paper for speech.
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I think you were lucky to go to college near (or in) a large city.
That was one of the reasons I chose Park.
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