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.
Free Exercises, Rope Jumping in Apparatus; Diffusion, Osmosis in Anatomy - Tuesday, February 6, 1962
This has been a busy day. I found out that Dr. Hampl would like for me to change to the 11:00 French class - I jumped at the chance. No more first hour classes every day. In apparatus we did free exercises, rope jumping, checking for balance and so forth. We did diffusion and osmosis experiments in anatomy lab (I had to hurry there from phys ed). It was just like good old high school chemistry lab. Marge and I both made recollections. I've been doing homework in every spare minute. Kathy, Becky and I were having quite a time after supper with some of the foreign students from Persia, Lebanon and Japan.
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Any idea why he wanted you to switch French classes?
Dr. Hampl was a thin no-nonsense older woman who wore a dress and heels and often got a migraine headache. I am guessing she wanted the enrollment to be more balanced between the two classes.
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