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.
Have Talked in All of Trimester's Classes - Thursday, January 24, 1963
I've got so much history and poli sci to read. These Thursday nights are bad - ed psych all evening. We're having a house meeting now. (Back.) This day has certainly taxed my emotions. I got a letter from Phyllis. She's a popular girl! She said Carolyn Hole died - was going to have her brother's baby, took half a bottle of aspirin and turpentine. Things can be the very worst. Sometimes I wonder about me. I guess I don't speak up enough - carry over habit from grade school and high school I guess - at Park no one objects to what anyone says in class - I talked in ed psych tonight, have done so in all classes now, must get better, do it more.
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Wow, your post reminded me of how much I dreaded talking in my college classes when I started. For some reason, I discovered that if I sat in the front of the room, I didn't mind talking up at all. That really seems odd now that I think about it.
Yes, especially now that you routinely present lectures to university students.
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