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.
Some Old Pictures of Park - Thursday, October 17, 1963
Gloria and I were going to referee the ACC-PCC speedball game this afternoon (as awful as the job would have been) but it was too wet to play. We walked up to visit Nancy. On our way back we stopped and talked to Miss Fishburn about some old pictures of Park and she gave us a duplicate of the old LLC club room in Mackay. There's a lady staying in Stephens for two weeks who is here to help sort out old things in the Park House. Miss Fishburn wishes more kids would have our interest in Park and more school spirit. Kathy, Wayne and Art got every bit of the bank's float from Mr. Blaschke, whom I called.
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