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.
Wrote to the President of the Board of Trustees - Saturday, May 2, 1964
We girls drove out to the woods past the cemetery and drove down to the creek this evening to look for mushrooms, but we didn't have any luck. We had fun exploring the areas though, and looking at the tombstones in the cemetery. I wrote a letter to Elmer Norrington, president of the Board of Trustees, to ask him what could be done to "save Park College before it's too late." I got Karen's, Carol's and Sue's Stephens pictures ready to mail to them. I won a hand lotion doll yesterday at Osincup's - too bad my name wasn't drawn for a box of chocolates instead.
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