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.
Will Condense Dewey's The Quest for Certainty - Monday, November 30, 1964
John Dewey's The Quest for Certainty is interesting but I'm getting bogged down in it. I need to condense its 300 and some pages into a four-page book review for philosophy that is due tomorrow since I didn't hand it in today. Thanksgiving vacation was good for everyone. There seems to be a much greater degree of cordiality on campus. We had only an hour long student council meeting - that's nice. Dr. Pai is upset over a negativistic letter toward our remedial reading program from Mr. Foutes.
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