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.
Mom Hawkins Arranged a Blind Date - Saturday, April 6, 1963
Well, leave it to when I get the busiest to have some extra fun on top of it! This evening I was on my way to Commons when Mom Hawkins stopped me and fixed me up for a blind date with Stan Hess, a boy from the College of Emporia who was a freshman at Park with this year's seniors. He was back on campus for a missions and ecumenical movement conference but was seeing all his friends rather than attending it. He gets back here quite often. We went to Thieves' Carnival, then walked around campus, then came back and talked at the front desk with Mom. He is real nice. I walked to Alfalfa Point this afternoon with Ardella. Larry Young came to get us in his new convertible.
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