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.
Read From the Book of Mark - Saturday, November 3, 1962
I got up at 10:00 and cleaned the room till 11:00. I was going to talk to Dr. Pivonka about the science equipment for a Stylus article but since I had on my rolled up Levis and Park jacket decided I looked unpresentable. I called his office and he was lecturing anyway. This afternoon we played the LECs in speedball. We lost 3-0. We were short players again. I went to the library and read part of the Book of Mark (very interesting) and then went down to Parkville to get Mom [my mother] a birthday card. I'm going to send her the red half slip I got in Kansas City. Jean, Bev and I went bowling tonight. I had scores of 40 and 52! I'm great!
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2 comments:
Maggie says she bowled a 28 once - you have similar talents it seems! :)
That's funny.
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