Barbara McDowell Whitt
My blogs
| Gender | Female |
|---|---|
| Industry | Education |
| Occupation | Retired |
| Location | Kansas City, Missouri, Alexandria, Virginia, United States |
| Introduction | ~ 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. |
| Interests | husband, two daughters, one son-in-law, two granddaughters, retirement, health, vegetarian cooking, walking, reading books and blogs about writing and publishing, reading memoirs, writing comments on other people's blogs and on Twitter, Facebook and on my blog - "A 1961-65 Park College Diary," living on the Country Club Plaza in Kansas City, Missouri, and near Washington, DC in Alexandria, Virginia, collecting Christmas tree ornaments while traveling, creating a one-of-a-kind Christmas tree each Thanksgiving season and taking the decorations back off on or near New Year's Day |
| Favorite movies | Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, Loving, On Golden Pond, Ordinary People, A River Runs Through It, A Beautiful Mind, Apollo 13, Forrest Gump, Chariots of Fire, Sophie's Choice, The Color Purple, Away From Her, The Notebook, When a Man Loves a Woman, Letters to Juliet, Shall We Dance? Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, Mr. Holland's Opus, The Last Picture Show, Invictus, Field of Dreams, The King's Speech, Lincoln, Hidden Figures |
| Favorite music | Joy to the World, The Messiah, Jesu Joy of Man's Desiring, Pachelbel's Canon in D, Fur Elise and other classical music played by a good orchestra, This Is My Father's World, Holy Holy Holy, Near to the Heart of God, Be Thou My Vision, Because He Lives and other hymns played by a good organist |
| Favorite books | The Bible (1952 edition, Revised Standard Version), The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language (1969, first edition), The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank, To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, An American Childhood by Annie Dillard, Gift From the Sea by Anne Morrow Lindbergh, A Year by the Sea by Joan Anderson,Two Part Invention by Madeleine L'Engle, 44, Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff, The Road From Coorain by Jill Ker Conway, Summer at Tiffany by Marjorie Hart, The Red Leather Diary by Lily Koppel, A Great Current Running by CW Gusewelle, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly by Jean-Dominique Bauby, Fearfully and Wonderfully Made by Dr. Paul Brand and Philip Yancey, Wordstruck by Robert MacNeil, Blue Highways by William Least-Heat Moon, The Inland Ground - An Evocation of the American Middle West by Richard Rhodes, Lenten Lands: My Childhood with Joy Davidman and CS Lewis by Douglas Gresham, Here I Stand by John Shelby Spong, Joshua by Joseph F. Girzone, The Soul of Politics by Jim Wallis |