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 on the Possibility of Life on Mars - Wednesday, November 28, 1962
Dr. Sagan talked about the possibility of life on Mars tonight, also of life in meteorites. (I wonder if he had anything to do with the Life magazine article - if he did - gee, maybe he's the one I wrote to about our meteorite once.) He explained how Martian astronomers would interpret Earth. The history test wasn't bad, considering we knew ahead of time what to study for, but I should have done better, especially on the bank issue. I just wrote a post card home his week - also wrote to Schwartzes, Varners, Mary Ellen - "business" (social) matters.
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