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.
Interviewed by KCII "Man on the Street" - Wednesday, August 21, 1963
Schwartzes left this morning. Mom, Dad and Phyllis took them to the train. We had Esteps here for supper, and then everybody went out to Grandma and Grandpa's for ice cream and cake for Mom and Dad's 22nd anniversary. I started calling people for the college page - I finally got around to it after going to renew my driver's license at 4:00. I averaged one call every five minutes. I suppose in the long run it's as easy as their phoning in themselves, interrupting my regular morning work. But then I can expect phone calls constantly on my job anyway. I was interviewed by the KCII [Kleanest City in Iowa] "Man on the Street" yesterday on what I thought of Iowa's traffic death rate.
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