A 1961-65 Park College Diary

**nightly entries written by a coming-of-age girl who became a woman from Washington County Iowa**

May 22, 2018: From A 1961-65 Park College Diary to Pinned Tweets on Twitter

Today I edited my April 25, 2018 post about Elizabeth Flock saying - during the April 21, 2018 Library of Congress and District of Columbia ...

April 25, 2018: Graduated From Park College in Parkville, MO 53 Years Ago

Yes, it was that much time ago. Here's the one-page diary entry I wrote on Sunday, April 25, 1965: "I received my B.A. degree fro...

March 26, 2018: A Fall Semester of Speech Took the Place of Freshman Composition

My four years of high school English were taught by Mrs. Gladys Kephart at West Chester High School and Mid-Prairie Community High School in...

February 24, 2018: Another Term Paper - The Place of Religion in the Public Schools

Introduction to Religion at Park was a two trimester course taught by Dr. Woodbridge O. Johnson. On Friday, February 22, 1963 I wrote in one...

January 30, 2018: A Term Paper - The Intelligence, Education & Culture of Jesus

At Park College in November of my sophomore year in 1962 I brought nine books from the library to a dorm room in Hawley Hall and began writi...

December 28, 2017: Music Has Been a Strong and Rich Tradition at Park

Founder and Artistic Director of the International Center for Music at Park and the 2001 Van Cliburn gold medal award winner Stanislav Ioude...

November 29, 2017: An Interest in All Things to do with Life in Space

Fifty-five years ago tonight, on Thursday, November 29, 1962 my reporting on Dr. Carl Sagan's four-lecture series at Park appeared in Th...

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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.

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