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.
Research Paper Will Help Religion Grade - Monday, November 19, 1962
I talked to Dr. Johnson tonight after the Monday night religion class was out. He has reassured me that I can pass the course. The research paper counts as 2/3 of our grade - here's where I must shine! He even asked me what my parents' reaction was, rather than having to tell him I'm afraid they won't like it. But I don't think they sent the D slips home this year. Tonight I have a soc test to study for. I read some proof tonight - went down with Regina - since we hope to get a six page paper out on Wednesday. We forfeited our speedball game to the ACCs - oh well, I need the study time.
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Gosh, you are making me nervous here about this religion class grade!
A nice thing about Park was that it was small enough that we could always go to talk with our professors and know that they knew us as a member of the class.
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