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.
After All That Our Anatomy Test Grades Won't Be Recorded - Monday, May 7, 1962
French test tomorrow and a music test Wednesday. Ugh! And Mr. Hearson isn't going to record our anatomy test grades because he gave it (different and harder at that) to two of the Parchie Varsity kids a day late and got the idea we might get to thinking he was showing some kind of favoritism! After all that studying and concern. It was hot today. I got awfully tired of working in the library. I'm proud of myself that I got "Youth, Beautiful Youth" read for world lit.
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2 comments:
What an excellent idea for a blog. I came across your site through the WordCount Blogathon. I'm from Iowa, too. :)
Sara, thank you for visiting my blog and leaving your comment. Your two blogs, No. 2 Pen and Saucy Dipper, along with your No. 2 Pen book all are great. It's wonderful to be from Iowa, isn't it? One of my favorite quotes is "Iowa looks like, and probably is, what America was meant to be but never was."
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