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.
Talked About Park College on "Man on the Street" - Thursday, May 21, 1964
Virginia was initiated into Thespians tonight. Phyllis and I went over with her. There are some cute kids in high school these days. I hardly know half of them. Mom went to a ceramics class tonight. Claude Woods "cornered me" today for his "Man on the Street" radio program. I pass him every day on my route but have never had to stop except for that one time last summer. I talked about Park College and college education in general. I got a gift certificate for a half dozen doughnuts at Fern's. One of the men at the program tonight asked Phyllis if I was her mother - I don't know how to take that!
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