About the diary writer

My photo
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.

In Awe About Van Gogh Exhibit - Tuesday, March 19, 1963

Gee, if this were a school for nothing but activities, it would be fine, but since there seems to be homework, too, it makes it kind of bad. I have just finished my Stylus news. Mr. Sherwood will kill me (George said he's in a bad mood). I wanted to get it done this morning but news gathering took longer than I expected - Dr. Hauptmann loaned me a copy of the book he and Tuesday's German speaker both have articles in. The Van Gogh exhibition was fabulous. After being shown in Philadelphia, Detroit and Kansas City, it's going back to Holland. We had a WRA meeting tonight to elect all-stars.

No comments:

Post a Comment

Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)