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.
Six Tarkio Students Were at Church Today - Sunday, November 25, 1962
A lot can happen in a day. This morning three freshman girls, two freshman boys and a senior girl from Tarkio College were at church as a gospel team. It was fun getting acquainted with them. It sounds like Tarkio is just as "un-churchy" as Park. They may come down to the Tarkio-Park basketball game next week. We had a dinner at church for them. We had to leave as soon as we finished eating (so did the Tarkio kids). Then we drove to Des Moines, finally found the Union Station, I got the 4:52 train for K.C., got here at 9:25, met Bonnie, Carol and Fran, and rode out to campus in Buzz's car with them, Judy Percival and Ruth Ann. And now again, back to typical college life.
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That was nice you could go home for just the long weekend.
I thought so, too.
Phyllis, the oldest of my three younger sisters, graduated from Tarkio College in 1967. Tarkio was known as an active college among United Presbyterian affiliated colleges. The College maintained gospel teams which visited churches on Sunday mornings to conduct worship services. The team often ate a prepared lunch with members of the congregation before returning to Tarkio.
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