Item 6: 5 p. w/env. Letter to Rose, C.A., Miriam, Tony from Christine, Had enclosed copies of Mary's letters

Copies of Mary's Letters Discusses teaching how to sew clothing, "I believe I could learn to like to teach clothing if I could concentrate on it. Now don't laugh. It has many problems. For example so far my girls have refused to take their clothes off for fitting but they also want their clothes to fit like their skin;" Had gone to Benghazi, one of the three capitols, "This country is ripe for home ec. But Govt. officials are so very young, inexperienced, uneducated, untrained, and immature. It seems hopeless to me. It's like dealing with kindergarten;" "Aysha (my Libyan counterpart) and I received a written invitation [Sussi family wedding] through Madam Menazy the head mistress of the girl's school in Benghazi where the bride had gone to school. Madam's husband is the Ambassador to France. She, we suspect is the leader of the quiet but still evident emancipation of Libyan women. I feel that Aysha also her student is a favorite prot‚g‚ and so fortunately she is favorable to our program;" describes the Libyan wedding which includes the feast, the costumes, decorations, entertainment, and finally the procession, "Finally from the doorway comes an Indian [Native American] hoot as our American kids do with their hands on their lips. Libyan women do it without their hands but you can see their tongues flip up and down a mile a minute in their wide open mouths. It's announcing the next feature [the procession of the bride]" The wedding takes seven days.