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.
Roger's Letter to Park Freshmen - Friday, August 16, 1963
Grandma and Grandpa were here this evening for homemade ice cream and cake. I started typing college news items again - I had done some a while back. There are quite a few, but still a lot we don't have. Mom, Jane, David and Karen stopped in to see me this afternoon and took a look at the back room and press. I wrote to Karen Lewis to tell her I could go early for the yearbook meeting. Roger sent me a copy of the letter he sent on behalf of the LLCs to the freshmen. I wish he hadn't made his one mistake: faculty "wifes"! Good old Roger.
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