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.
Interesting Classes, Good Professors - Friday, September 7, 1962
Our room here is so nice. It's so much more homey and conducive to study than Hawley was. I will have a heavy schedule this semester, but I certainly have some interesting classes. Good professors, too. I'm glad to have Dr. Johnson's religion course. Margie, Nancy and I went to the free movie, "The Mark," an English film about a mental patient, tonight. Margie had Phil come along. This afternoon I covered my Stylus "beat" and got a little news. I had to go to the registrar's, public relations and president's offices and get the library and Commons hours.
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Stylus beat?
Ron, at the end of my freshman year I applied for and obtained six hours of work a week writing articles for the Stylus, Park's weekly newspaper.
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