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.
Asked Dr. Bentley Glass a Question - Wednesday, March 4, 1964
I've just spent most of a day pursuing outside interests within the liberal arts tradition. I went to the library to find out more about snail fever (schistosomiasis) when the question arose when I was trying to think of something to ask Dr. Bentley Glass, Johns Hopkins visiting geneticist, for extra credit for geography at the president's house following tonight's lecture. Thanks to a referral by Dr. Hamilton to an article in Scientific American and Dr. Beatley's mention of it in his lecture, I think I "scored" with my question on sickle-cell hemoglobin. Mom wrote that [my cousin] Martin Estep has cystic fibrosis of the pancreas.
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