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.
We Are Let into Mackay This Morning - Thursday, November 8, 1962
History has required a lot of time tonight. Dave Kennedy and I waded through part of it tonight in the library and finally both came to the conclusion that we weren't getting much out of it. I got up at 6:15 and went over to Mackay with my religion paper at 6:30. Sure enough, Mackay was locked. I just came back from trying the two west doors when Karen Benson came along with her religion paper, so we sat down for someone to come and unlock the door. Carlyn showed up, too, just before the custodians came and unlocked the door. Always something different at college! The LLCs lost to the ACCs.
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Your post today just delighted me: the idea of you getting to Mackay before it opened to get your paper in, the comment about history, and all. I googled Mackay to see more after looking at your picture on the blog in front of it and found this lovely photo: http://hcap.artstor.org/cgi-bin/library?a=d&d=p1296.3
Ron, you did indeed find a beautiful photo of Mackay with the steps in front of it and the library (at the time I was there) and science hall behind Mackay. Thank you for including the URL - an interesting site with the Council of Independent Colleges and the Historic Campus Arichetecure Project references and a headquarters at Dupont Circle in Washington, DC. Maybe we can go to see where it is in our last week out here before we return to Kansas City for Thanksgiving and Christmas.
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