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.
Saw Map Made From Construction Paper Pieces - Tuesday, May 19, 1964
Tonight Phyllis and I went to Y-Whizzers. Just ladies went on time to go on the scavenger hunt, so Karen Pohren went with us. In spite of a good try, we came in last. I've been in the last group in the last three scavenger hunts I've been on. After the meeting Ben Davis took Phyllis and me and Skip Robinson to the A&W for something to eat. I looked at some of the materials Mrs. Zager gave me, but these May days are getting away from me in spite of myself. I stopped past the school to look at the big Indian area mural map Mrs. Zager's third graders made from construction paper pieces.
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