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.
Written Fencing Final Took Two Hours - Friday, January 19, 1962
Since I spent two hours on my written fencing final this morning (it called for a lot of details) I didn't get to lunch till 1:00 and therefore didn't get to my world lit reading this afternoon like I had planned. I washed and ironed and before I knew it the afternoon was gone. Tonight Marge, Linda Keith, Carolyn Frobig, Regina and I went to see Swiss Family Robinson. I saw the good old Gone With the Wind preview again. I must see it again. Guess I'll read Lucretius. I got two C's and a B on the last test. I should be doing better in that course.
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Got such a kick out of your offhanded comment: Guess I'll read Lucretius. Now that's a sentence you don't often here. I have to say I have never read Lucretius.
I was getting a head start on the reading for the second semester of world lit.
whoops i meant "hear." I hate mistakes like that!
Ron, I knew what you intended to write (of course) (or were you off course?). It reminds me that I keep seeing "led" spelled "lead" as in "lead pencil" except in the context of "he led me there." I just now checked my 1968 edition of the American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language which confirms that my spelling is correct.
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