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.
Park's 87th Opening Convocation is Impressive - Tuesday, September 19, 1961
The very impressive 87th opening convocation of Park College was this morning. All the faculty members marched in in their caps and gowns. There are 555 students at Park this year (not all full-time). They also had a combination memorial service for a former dean of Park, Dr. Sanders, who died Sunday. Afternoon classes were called off for his funeral. He was at Park as a teacher, dean and historian from 1911 to l959. I spent all afternoon on biology lab (characteristics and classifications of everything from copperhead snakes to bacteria). I have had to change my schedule because Dr. Hampl scheduled my bio lab for 1:00-2:00 - it's either 12:00 - 1:00 or 2:00 - 3:00, etc., etc.
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