Folder 15

1958 Jun 01, 7 p. w/env. Letter to Folks Had been on a road trip of over 1500 miles and the driving situation was a fiasco, car even caught fire; “I think we got back alive only by the grace of God and a little help on the side by Allah”; describes trip a bit; saw a cockroach “as big as a mouse”; mentions the living conditions of the east, “the people live like animals”; sent some items including an Egyptian head dress and describes how to wear it; maid is in trouble for botching up dishes
1958 Jun 09, 5 p. w/env. Letter to Folks Having a hard time with her short course as “they [Turkish people] feel they are equipped to talk on any subject and refuse to do any preparing”; is going to get together with her counterparts to organize the baby feeding slides and script; working up lessons to teach women how to teach to the Turkish people; “Boy you need both Ext. and residence training to hold this job”
1958 Jun 23, 6 p. w/env. Letter to Folks Was happy to hear one of her “little gals made 50 sanitary Turkish toilets and she has not yet been on a year”; angry that a girl she had prepared to send to the U.S. hasn’t been sent and it’s been months, the girl had started to forget English and so Mary sent a letter to her boss; “As one of the foreign Service men I most respected said, ‘You can either sit on your sitter, be very popular, get promoted and nothing done and be agreeable and liked by everyone or you can fight the battles, get ulcers, be hated by everyone and show some progress and be fired’ he chose the latter and I’m going to do the same”; mentions Turkish apartment rates being ridiculous;