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.
Acting Silly Rather Than Studying - Thursday, March 15, 1962
The dorm just had a "Cape Canaveral" type "countdown" using the phone on each floor to coordinate it and on the final count and phone ring everyone slammed their doors. They had done it just on second last year and Mom Hawkins' pen went flying across her paper. This year she dropped a cup! The practical anatomy test on the bones had a few tricky ones that I got mixed up. Today was UN Model Assembly Day for high school students. I'm pooped - we just snake danced through the dorm and then put the counselors in the showers. I'm almost weak!
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