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.
Bonfire and "Swan Lake Ballet" Movie - Sunday, October 28, 1962
Oh, what an exhausting weekend. Margie and I went to church with Jay and Dale this morning. They had morning chapel services for once. Then we went to Waids in Riverside for dinner. Kids from campus go there all the time. I hadn't realized it was the place we ate breakfast the first morning I came to Park. The boys left at 1:00 to go back to Omaha. This afternoon I read history but I was too drowsy to get much out of it. The bonfire and box lunches on the lower soccer field with singing and then the movie of the "Swan Lake Ballet" were a nice climax to Harvest Festival.
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