14 June 1947, 14 June 1947

Kierstead tells of how she will be traveling for a week with a group of university students and professors who are going to study the mines near Zonguldak, on the Black Sea. Updates her family on her plans for the summer. She hopes to travel to Eastern Anatolia and to "the old Kurdistan and Armenia," returning by boat across the Black Sea and stopping at each of the ports. She writes of two of her favorite teachers who will be leaving the American College for Girls.