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.
Halloween Activities at Park - Wednesday, October 31, 1962
Halloween at Park this year began with a "picnic" breakfast in Commons. We had to eat from paper plates since there wasn't any steam for the dish washer. Tonight there was a horror movie in Alumni (a mystery - "The Bat") and then a "food" party in the Meetin' House. Margie and I helped celebrate here by putting up the black and orange crepe paper I found last spring in streamers in the hall. I got a B on my psych test (shoot, I would have liked another A - several kids got them this time). Oh, my religion test grade was terrible - 63. He had said this test wouldn't count in our midterm average, but it does. I cried a little.
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