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.
Talking With Mrs. Flaherty - Tuesday, September 10, 1963
Evelyn and I have just spent an hour at the J.R. talking and eating ice cream and Coke floats. We didn't even worry about not doing homework. I really should feel free to do that more often. We had a Lucerne meeting tonight. We plan to have a surprise breakfast for the Lowells on Sunday, the 21st. I'm enjoying my courses now that I hope to have my schedule finally decided. I went up to the health center this afternoon and put in "two hours" of work by talking to Mrs. Flaherty. Rick Campbell came up later for his janitor job, and one of the maintenance men brought some meat and stayed for coffee and to talk.
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