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.
Cleaned Out Deer Park Spring - Wednesday, September 4, 1963
My baggage was finally delivered to me today. But I guess some kids sent theirs two and a half weeks ago and it wasn't here when they got here. Karen and I discussed more yearbook plans today. Terry didn't show up. I helped Carol, Kathy and Tom distribute Narvas today. Everyone likes them. This afternoon Becky and I - industrious souls - borrowed a rake from the president's garage and cleaned out Deer Park Spring which we're going to decorate with lanterns for a "Little Switzerland" tomorrow night. The spring will be "Lake Lucerne" and the pavilion, "Lowell Lodge." Our serenade tonight was nice.
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Narvas?
Narva continues to be the name of the Park yearbook. Your question prompted me to do a Google search [Park University Narva 2013] where I learned: "Narva is the name of a fictional Indian chief, the subject of a poem entitled 'The Vision of Narva: A Legend of Parkville' written circa 1891 by leading Platte County (Mo.) citizen, William McClung Paxton."
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