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.
Two Unusual Letters Lead to Growing Up a Little More - Thursday, August 13, 1964
The mail I received today included two of the most unusual letters I've ever received - Margie Blondin's insights into French kissing and petting; and a letter from the mother of one of my freshman advisees saying her son had been killed in an auto accident. And so I read and philosophize and grow up yet a little more. Mom's club picnic was supposed to be tonight, but they decided it was too cold and called it off. Rhoda and Mary are staying here tonight. I wrote to the personnel office at Park to see if they could let me know whether Stephens will have all of the fourth floor of Hawley. They were supposed to let me know but never did.
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