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.
Returned to "Normal" About Written Comp Grade - Sunday, April 11, 1965
Friends are wonderful. It is they who have talked me into forgetting my misfortune, and they're right - I had moped around long enough by 5:30 this evening. Since that time I've been "normal" again. I did call Mr. Carey this morning to talk about it. He was very understanding and sounded sorry himself. He told me the reason my paper had fallen down - I completely reversed the two given statements as to traditional and progressive education. (I guess I thought too far and went past the obvious.) This morning I went with Evelyn to the Lutheran church where she plays the organ.
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