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.
Some of Us Volunteer to Return to Hawley - Thursday, September 27, 1962
It's been a hard day - not conducive to studying history. Margie and I ended up volunteering to go to Hawley this morning - and stuck our decision out - though the tension was running high this afternoon at our sophomore meeting at to who would go and who would stay. "Pent House" finally volunteered for half of fourth floor and some of us will fill in on the other floors. This all has really been hard on everybody. It's a relief to have it "settled." It's going to be hard to leave Herr House and hard for the freshmen for us to move in on them. I practically had the run of the Stylus front page. I interviewed Mr. Campanella for two art department stories this morning.
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