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.
Lowell-Lucerne Club Initiation was Held Tonight - Thursday, February 15, 1962
After chapel I went downtown to see if my pictures were back. They were. I entered two of the black and white snow scenes along with the colored pictures of the chapel and our room in the public affairs office contest for view book pictures. Dr. Hill [last semester's speech professor] drove me back up to campus. The LLCs initiation was tonight. It was a very impressive ceremony. We had to kneel before the table and repeat our oath. Then we signed our names with all the other Parkites who have belonged to Lowells or Lucernes.
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