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.
Hearing Religious Views and Reading Ovid - Sunday, October 8, 1961
Today I've been hearing religious views and reading Ovid. Tonight we had a Religion in Life Week discussion in the lounge. Some of us left when they excused those who had to study; then we ended up with our own discussion of reincarnation, etc., out in the hall on the floor. Some of us went to Copley for another fellowship meeting this afternoon. I wrote to Mrs. Cowan and sent her a birthday card, handkerchief and two Park post cards. We had a Copley [a boys' dorm] raid last night and were wakened from sound sleep at 2:00 a.m. for a lounge party. And now Nickel [another boys' dorm] is on the revenge since some of the girls stole Nickel's moose head!
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