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.
Attended Two Boorstin Lectures - Wednesday, January 23, 1963
I have just spent some minutes becoming an Edgar Allen Poe. I don't know if I like it or not. It's not bad - now to give my poetry a name. I went to hear Dr. Boorstin's lecture on "The Idealization of Work." He sets you to thinking about the American way of life. This morning he talked on "From Conscience to Community." It was evidently too cold for the swimming meet today - anyway we didn't have it, and no dress regulations tonight. I read proof this afternoon. I haven't been so cold in ages as I was outside today.
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Very cool to have heard (in person) Daniel Boorstin.
What were "dress regulations"?
Every Wednesday night when we went to the dining hall for dinner we were required to wear dress clothes - dressy outfits for the girls and suits and ties for the guys. Occasionally, if there was snow on the ground or if it was unusually cold, the dress regulations were suspended.
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