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.
Dr. Hampl's Apartment for French Class - Monday, February 4, 1963
Dr. Hampl had our French class go out to her house a few miles out of Parkville for class this afternoon since she still wasn't well enough to come to school. She has a real nice apartment out by Melody Farms. My bad luck day - tipped over some Coke on my car coat when I laid it on the table for lunch and flunked my fist history quiz (didn't even do that last semester). Pat Frost is going to be a good reporter. She, George and I ought to really be able to swing things now - it's about time. A second February 4th in a row was a beautiful spring day. On that day last year some of us hiked to Falling Springs in Bermudas.
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