**nightly entries written by a coming-of-age girl who became a woman from Washington County Iowa**
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.
Three Chapters of Art Left to Read - Wednesday, November 1, 1961
I've decided that by spending an hour on each of my remaining three chapters of art I might pass the test tomorrow. I've really got myself in a mess this time. I think I'll have to pray for a miracle. I guess I'd better not get panicky or I won't know a thing. I'll have to concentrate on a few things. Gosh, it's only a two-hour course. I didn't take time to go to chapel or the campus church meeting tonight. I yearn to get back into a little more conversation and having fun rather than gluing myself to books - this is what comes from doing the former - oh, help!
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