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.
A Date For Frosh Court - Friday, September 13, 1963
A few of us bright-eyed souls in Stephens got up at 4:00 this morning to watch the freshmen girls come past. However, we heard the firecrackers go off at Copley, decided we had missed them and went back to bed. David Rumpf asked me to Frosh Court. That was this morning as I was sitting on the top of Copley steps waiting for the library to open. He was among those at the health center with colds tonight. We had a busy clinic - it's a nice job. I had a good letter from Phyl. Gee, she has a course load at Tarkio College: biology, basic math, Life of Christ, advanced comp, phys ed, speech and art apprec. Plus orientation classes which should give her 20 hours by Christmas!
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I love this concept, Barbara. I went to college 1966-70 and didn't write in a diary. However, I did write letters home and to my boyfriend so that I have a very complete record also of those four years. I was delighted to find your comment on my blog and to know how many ways our lives have been parallel. Blessings as you return to Kansas City.
Thank you, Shirley Hershey Showalter, for visiting my blog and leaving your comment. I am looking forward to reading your new memoir, Blush: A Mennonite Girl Meets a Glittering World.
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