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.
Concerned About This Year's Stephens Spirit - Friday, October 30, 1964
It's too bad, but the Stephens spirit is very forced compared to what it was a year ago. I don't know if it's the fault of me as the president, the place where we're living, the people in the dorm, or what. Honestly, it makes me nervous, darn it! The atmosphere at the Halloween party Nickel gave us tonight was pretty stilted. The kids had a lot of fun at the school Halloween party. I thought their little nerves would burst during one of the relays the room mothers had. I talked to Dave Kennedy, who goes to Parsons this year, at the Nickel party. I got an A on my philosophy paper.
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