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.
Sarita Penick Shows Her Slides of Paris - Wednesday, February 14, 1962
Today I ambitiously got up at 5:30 just long enough to find out that the orbital trip had been postponed again, attended all my classes (I've never missed one yet), wrote my letter home, worked from 2:00 to 5:15 and studied on the job, got dressed up for supper (dress-up night), went to "Le Cercle Francais" in Copley lounge to see Sarita Penick's slides of Paris, and did my usual laborious French assignment.Now the reward of each day: sleep!
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4 comments:
Sounds like a busy but wonderful college day!
Suzanne! I was thinking this morning about how glad I am that you take time to read my diary entries about what life was like for me as a high school and college student. I really do appreciate it.
I think these are probably like the family round robin: a treasure.
Ron, thank you, too, for being a wonderful supporter of my blog.
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