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.
Tonight's Entertainment is Dancing the Twist at a Party in Upper Commons - Friday, March 9, 1962
Tonight's entertainment was a party in Upper Commons. The dance, the Twist, is quite the rage. I can't do it myself. I got my prize money this morning. They're going to be able to return the pictures after all. Maybe I could turn in a few more, as I was told they'd be glad to have them. It was nice to be able to sleep late since we didn't have anatomy class. Of course Vivien forgot and yelled did I oversleep even though I'd told her I could sleep late. Music class was dismissed early because the record player cut up during "A Mighty Fortress is Our God."
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The last sentence was wonderful!
Really? How so?
It just struck me funny that it would be such a large and magnificant hymn as "Mighty Fortess..." that the record player would stop in its tracks and send student off.
Yes, indeed. I still remember Mr. Larson (he later obtained a Ph.D in conducting at Indiana University) standing on the floor at the front of the stage and setting the needle of a simple little record player (which was on the edge of the stage) in the right groove of a 78 rpm vinyl record to play a portion of music.
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