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.
Lab Animals Died and Need to be Replaced - Tuesday, October 17, 1961
Janet and Carolyn are in the process of papering over Judy's door since Judy originally took Janet's clothes while she was in the shower. We couldn't have lab today because all the little animals died. Dr. Hamilton made a long distance call to North Carolina to have them air mail some more by Thursday. I went over to work out on the trampoline and got my confidence back on the front drop but still need to relearn the back drop. Gee, I got one of the four highest grades in the class on my speech. It's promising but I've got to keep working, working, working at my 17 hours!
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Did you jump on the trampoline in a shirt? Probably not, but that's a funny image. Poor experimental lab animals.
I do remember our phys ed outfits. We had to buy white button down the front shirts and white shorts at the college book store. We had to wear the shirt tucked into our shorts.
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