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.
President Kennedy: Soviet Missiles in Cuba - Monday, October 22, 1962
It's go, go, go. But at least I just finished an article on the Park College growth campaign so maybe Carol will let me live for another week. She still has my student teacher story, too. I read sociology in the library tonight. I have three tests this week. This continuous push gets old. A lot of us watched President Kennedy's speech to the nation at 5:00. Soviet missiles based in Cuba have become a matter of grave national concern. When he started saying, "And now by the power vested in me by the Constitution," we all thought he was declaring war, but he was only listing seven "preliminary measures." I just hope and pray.
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Wow - that makes for a pretty powerful historical memory - to be able to look back 50 years later and remember the moment of fear when you though the country was headed to war.
And it's pretty special that 50 years later President Obama said, during last night's debate, we need more science and math teachers. Right when we are winding down No Child Left Behind you have been asked to become a science teacher.
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