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.
Spent the Afternoon at Library - Monday, October 9, 1961
Today I practiced my academic endeavors by spending the entire afternoon at the library reading a biology reserve book, listening to French records, and reading Ovid. I figure I could still spend eight hours on Ovid before the test Wednesday morning. Barbara Page and I are going to buy a set of French records jointly. I have really got to apply myself to my studies, but it should be easier now since everyone else is getting the same idea. Tonight we had the last of the movies on semantics. I spent another hour at the dorm discussion but left early to wash my hair and start studying.
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