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.
Studying for Another Test in Art - Wednesday, January 10, 1962
I got a letter from home and started writing one tonight. Maybe we'll be on a better letter writing schedule now than when I'd write, get a letter in the same mail, and then wait a week to answer it. I now have to finish studying for the art test (I spent the afternoon in the library reading the book again.) I guess Dr. Hampl is still real sick - I wish we could have had the French test Tuesday - at least this way I'm not bothered with assignments but I'd like to know when we'll have the test.
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4 comments:
I have a bachelor's degree in art, and I remember my art appreciation courses. They were more difficult than most people realize. Lot's of memory work as I recall.
For me art history class gave me a context to fit the rest of history into that made sense to me and sparked a real interest in history in general.
For sure, Cecelia.
That's very interesting, Ron.
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