Folder 16

1962 Apr 01, 1 p. no env. Letter to Folks Told a story about how her office secretary had shown up with a gash on her head “Our sec. is as personable and competent gal as you could ask for but she brings trouble to every place she lives. this is her 3rd move since I came.”
1962 Apr 04, 1 p. no env. Letter to Brother “I don’t know whether those of unstable minds seek foreign assignments or whether F.S. makes one unstable;” describes the bad water shortage situation.
1962 Apr 05, 1 p. no env. Letter to Brother “Yesterday I got Lederer’s, ‘A Nation of Sheep.’ If you haven’t read it, do. He co-authored with Burdick ‘The Ugly Am.” I liked this one very much. Perhaps for several reasons. 1. I understand the title, 2. He put the shoe more on the other foot this time. 3. He stole my original (at least I thought so) idea of making Foreign Service like compulsory military service.”
1962 Apr 05, 1 p. no env. Letter to Brother Had a conference with the President of Liberia University, he is the Liberian representative to the F.A.O. conference in Rome on Freedom from Hunger--Nutrition Conference.
1962 Apr 07, 1 p. no env. Letter to Folks Is having a hard time with the insurance policy communication and mentions how it’s hard to manage finances in Foreign Service.
1962 Apr 20, 1 p. no env. Letter to Folks “I forgot to tell you I’m coming up in the world. My street name has been changed from Duncan’s Alley to Pres. Sekow Touré Ane (the Pres. of Guinea visited us);” had a mix up at the police station where the traffic cop said her license was expired but there really was a big stamp on it that had showed it had been renewed.
1962 Apr 20, 1 p. no env. Letter to Folks Mentioned more Agriculture men getting transfers but still has not received her travel orders; Describes how a family had become god parents at the church and they were wearing Mandingo native costumes “They are about the most spectacular-not quite as colorful as India and Pakistani but just as dramatic-the men’s much more so.”
1962 Apr 21, 1 p. no env. Letter to Folks Went to a Mission School “one of the best operated in the country from a cleanliness and feeding standpoint” and helped drain a fish pond and clean fish.
1962 Apr 30, 1 p. no env. Letter to Folks “I mailed you some newspapers. This paper is of course controlled by the Pres. There is only one political party and every Gov’t. employee has to give half his May salary for the party;” If you must see someone in Wash. see Larry Cummings Forrestry for Africa. He was the chief Agr. here. He is a quite unassuming person and he could tell you about Africa. Don’t ask him anything personal. Frankly no one in A.I.D. Wash. knows anything and cares less.”
1962 Apr [?], 1 p. no env. Letter to Folks Had met with the UN head of the University of Liberia to check on the Home Economics facilities, this UN head claims that they have been raising soy beans, “Our Agr. men say you can’t raise soy beans here. Others say if we could the Africans wouldn’t eat them.”