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 Will Have to Move Back to Hawley - Sunday, September 23, 1962
I really fulfilled my chapel requirement today. I went to Parkville in the morning with Judy and tonight went down to hear Rev. Seamans speak in chapel. A Sunday evening college church service is alright, but we certainly should be having morning services, especially since we now have a college pastor. Another thing has caused a big stir. It seems Hawley, because it was built with government funds, must be filled to capacity, so some twenty sophomore girls are going to have to move back over there. Last spring second floor would have been glad to stay as a floor, but now we feel settled in Herr House.
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