Folder 5

1961 May 02, 3 p. w/env. Letter to Folks “I’m in the dog house with the boss…;” is starting to help in a program for underprivileged children; “Tomorrow is the big day and we each perform for the Washington D.C.;” “Sometimes I think the U.S. is in no position to help other countries.”
1961 May 05, 6 p. w/env. Letter to Folks Is going to house Maude Smith, the new American Home Ec.; is trying to find a new maid; “I’m trying to get Suheyla to get out our annual report but I just can’t get her to write one sentence;” is trying to get into Israel but if she ever gets an Israeli visa stamped in her passport, she can’t get into an “Arab Country;” heard from Dr. Brown that if they didn’t get more rain, the people would go hungry, “He [Dr. Brown] thinks I’m too ‘pushy’ but by god I get things done. I got seeds distributed and about 10,000 trees planted around homes while he sits and visits;” is having trouble with thievery around I.C.A., “The Turks have a reputation for being honest and I think they are until they work for us. They see us have more and we haven’t time to check everything and put it under lock and key and so it disappears whether it has no value to them or not;” heard from a Home Ec. from Africa who said it was “Hell on Earth--because of the Communists.”
1961 May 18, 4 p. w/env. Letter to Brother Traveled with Suheyla, the National 4-K [4-H?] leader, and the gal who will replace Mary, “We had a fair trip-the country is beautiful but our Ministry support is so poor I get so blue;” they want to send Mary strait to Liberia; is reading travel information about Liberia and the information is a bit grim.
1961 May 22, 4 p. w/env. Letter to Folks The front tooth of Mary’s bridge had come out and is having a hard time getting a dentist to be able to do anything about it in Turkey; is helping out with a big I.F.Y.E. party; one of the Nebraska home economics gals is having trouble with her American co-workers who are “Nebraska cowboys who are little characters”, they have been treating the gal like a servant; got a Turkish friend hired to be an interpreter; finally got her tooth problem fixed; The Turkish-Syrian border is closed now, “I really got blue when I read and heard the world news”
1961 May 22, 3 p. w/env. Letter to Brother Apartment is flooding as the water had flooded on the third floor and began to run all the way down, Mary called the landlady but she was sleeping and said she could not be disturbed; still hasn’t heard about her new assignment.
1961 May 23, 2 p. w/env. Letter to C. A. Border from The Colorado College Colorado College News Bulletin OWASSO High School Commencement Program