Folder 10

1960 Nov 07, 4 p. no env. Letter to Folks I.C.A. had never sent her hotel reservations and Mary is not pleased about it; will fly to Salonika to see the Farm School and Mission school to study their curriculum and floor plans for Home Economics; thinks you really can’t get a good experience out of foreign service unless you’ve spent at least a year or two in a foreign country.
1960 Nov 09, 4 p. no env. Letter to Folks Is experimenting with pumpkin recipes in order to show some folk different ways to cook pumpkin; had “O.K.’d” her extension replacement; people are worried about the water situation in Ankara
1960 Nov 17, 1 p. no env. USIS Daily Radio Bulletin “Eisenhower order cutback of number of dependents abroad;” “Economic letter from the United States;” “U.S. cities need to combat war in disarmament talks”
1960 Nov 19, 5 p. w/env. Letter to Folks Had flown to Thessalonica to see Anatolia College Buildings and to study the Farm School; mentions a Howard Akers who was transferred from the Turkish hospital to one in Washington D.C.; talks about some church troubles; the folk she trusted to watch over her house while she was gone did not water her plants, “A foreign service worker needs to be a jack of all trades;” is at a conference in Athens and is learning much about other national and international organizations, “The delegates are about one half men and it’s interesting to see how Sweden and some of the more western countries are resenting the dominating of the program by men;”
1960 Nov 25, 4 p. w/env. Letter to Folks Eisenhower’s decision has banned the P.X. from selling non-American goods and also took away Mary Border’s voice on the spending of counterpart funds, it’s now up to Turkey; discusses how she hates slides and finds them boring