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.
A Chopin Concert by Wiktor Labunski - Tuesday, February 12, 1963
This noisy dorm makes me edgy! I wonder if I'll have enough patience to teach school? Wiktor Labunski from the University of Kansas City played a Chopin concert in Alumni tonight. I could have listened to him all night. He's famous all over America and Europe. I get to hear another famous musician Sunday night - Jim Trett asked me to the Stan Getz jazz and bossa nova concert. Carolyn was back tonight to go over psychology. It's so fun playing those games in physical education in elementary schools. Every dorm on campus was hit with some bug - most likely Commons food - last night and this morning. I was one of the "victims."
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I love your diary entries from the 1960's. They are so interesting.
Mac, thank you so much for leaving a comment. I'm so glad you are finding my diary entries interesting.
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