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.
Snakes in Our Basement - Thursday, September 12, 1963
We just had a real fun house meeting. These girls are a riot. We laughed, laughed, laughed. Hell Week began tonight with the traditional entry of the goon squad into Upper Commons. One and two years go by in a hurry. I seem to have lost my personality notebook. At least it only had two lectures in it, and not a whole trimester's work or something. We're supposed to write on the history of psychology tomorrow in class. I hope by then -----. We have snakes in our basement - they even had Dr. Hamilton over today to catch some. We're all scared half to death. Tonight we caught Salt and Accent and are waiting for Pepper.
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