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.
We've Been Arriving Back on Campus All Day - Sunday, April 8, 1962
We've been arriving back on campus all day. I was the first one back to Hawley. Pat Frost and Judy X had been here all week. My train was right on time, but if I had waited till tomorrow it probably wouldn't have been. I didn't notice Fred Kieslar two seats in front of me till just before we got to KC. We split the price of a taxi to Park. I went down to Parkville Presbyterian Church this morning. Mom Hawkins had "fits" over my rubber snake. It's currently on Judy Percival's pillow - she hates snakes with a passion. Gloria Brown and Judy Lacefield dumped me in a third floor shower tonight.
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Fun that you attended Parkville Pres. I often went there while I was on summer staff.
Suzanne, I thought about you and your knowledge of Presbyterian churches north of the river when I saw my diary entry.
Summer staff, Suzanne? Did you work at Park?
I didn't work at Park Ron - but I see how it sounds like that! I was referring to my summers at the Presbyterian camp up near Park.
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