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.
Educational Psychology Will Be a Night Class - Tuesday, January 8, 1963
Political science yet to read and summarize. I have four classes this trimester that it won't be possible to let slide. The tests in educational psychology will be unannounced. The class will be Thursday nights for three hours. Mrs. Dorsey vows that each of us will learn how to do all the strokes in beginning swimming. I like Coach Nelson's attitude in physical education for elementary teachers. We will have to lead games and think up and teach original ones. Mr. Reynolds was fairly well satisfied with my articles - several minor changes.
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Wondering if you mastered the butterfly stroke - that one has always been a challenge for me. And ah, the memories of PE for Elementary Teachers - I loved that class! :)
No, I didn't master the butterfly stroke or the breast stroke or the back stroke. I worked on swimming widths in my own version of the free style while everyone else attempted lengths in the other strokes. Fortunately Mrs. Dorsey was an easygoing teacher with a lenient grading style. It makes me feel very good that you became a life guard. Yes, I, too, enjoyed phys ed for elementary teachers. A guy who ended up as a college soccer coach took the class with us.
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