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.
And Now an A on a Sociology Test - Tuesday, September 23, 1962
This is too much. I made an A (though there were two A+'s) on the sociology test and Mr. Gibson congratulated me in front of the class. He had called the names of the the A+'s before he went over the answers. Then he gave back the papers and mine was the next mentioned. There were three A's besides the two A+'s. This evening in the library I finally wrote out at ten till 9:00 a question for history that was supposed to be in Dr. Urban's box by 9:00. I put notes in the student teachers' boxes about my interviews of them for the Stylus, but Fred said I should wait awhile to write them.
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