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.
Dr. Sagan Gave His Concluding Lecture - Thursday, November 29, 1962
I am in a C rut, C to C+ again on the history test. My own fault. My write-up on the astrobiologist looked good in the Stylus. I think my article is just as good as the Kansas City Star article. Dr. Sagan gave his last lecture this morning - talked about communications with extra-terrestrials. I'm surprised how much of what he has said I've already known! I should go into the field as a major. It's strange how one can feel so good and so bad at the same time. A certain boy's smile, and then Dr. Sagan's theories. Oh, how wonderful it all is. Just wish we could abolish the grading system!
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Today was a great entry!
I'm glad you thought so.
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