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.
A Flame is Carried Between Two Fireplaces - Sunday, December 3, 1961
Dearing's party tonight was fabulous. Their escorts lit a torch from Hawley's fireplace and John Hislop carried it over to Dearing's fireplace. Flo and I were right behind the torchbearer. It was like the Olympic Games. We had carol singing and several of us decorated the tree while others danced. Nayman enjoyed helping with the first American tree he had ever seen decorated. This afternoon I read more art. This evening we saw the film, "Epistle from the Koreans," for fellowship hour. That was the one the missionary ladies had last summer that Mom said I should have seen.
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4 comments:
You might have mentioned it before, but remind me of where Nayman was from.
Gosh Barb, the party sounds like an idyllic college time from a warm and sweet time. I keep thinking of one of those college movies from mid-20th century without major conflict. I suppose it was there but in my mind is like Father Knows Best goes to college.
Suzanne, Nayman was from Kenya.
Yes, Ron, Park was a peaceful place. We had outstanding history and political science departments, but even when the war in Vietnam was escalating there was no political activism or campus unrest.
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