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.
Received Foils for Fencing - Wednesday, November 15, 1961
Mom forgot to send my November tuition check along with her letter. I'm writing this so I won't forget to remind her when I write again next Wednesday. As it is now, I send a letter home at the same time I get theirs, so I reply to a week-old letter just before I get another. I went to the biology review session tonight. I think the girls here can help me master it - I hope! We got our foils for fencing in phys ed. It sounds like it will be fun. This was a rainy, messy day and tonight we didn't have to dress up for supper. Today has seemed funny - like I've had more time or something.
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Did you normally "dress for supper"?
Yes - we were required to wear dresses or skirts, suits and ties for supper every Wednesday night. That was followed by Wednesday evening chapel which, by the time I was there, no longer had required attendance.
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