Merissa Mathes - Playmate of the Month for June 1962 (Repost)

Merissa Mathes (born Marrisa Mathes on January 26, 1940 in Moses Lake, Washington) is an American actress and model. She was Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Month for its June 1962 issue. Her centerfold was photographed by Glenn Otto.
During the early to mid 1960s, she pursued an acting career, appearing in B-movies and series television.

BICYCLE BELLE
bicycling Playmate Merissa Mathes is a spingtime ring-a-dinger

Helping to make June days all the more rare in California this spring is a bucolic beauty named Merissa Mathes, a budding actress and this month's cycling Playmate. During workdays auburn-haired Merissa is strictly a city girl, absorbed in thesping studies – but weekends she likes to go on a spin through the countryside for sunny sessions of away-from-home homework. A graduate of Santa Monica City College, our 22-year-old scene stealer admits to a fondness for exotic food, ghost towns and windy nights in San Francisco; she also harbors hopes of becoming a dramatic success (her recent role calls include local theater productions and a part in the flick The Phantom Planet. While waiting out the big break, Merissa lives the life of an L.A. bachelor girl, reads avidly (Ian Fleming's James Bond series), cooks up a storm (specialty: veal scaloppine) and dates a number of her understandably enthusiastic admirers.

Playboy, June 1962

AMBITIONS: I'd like to be a successful dramatic actress, travel the world and have a ranch with lots of animals.
TURN-ONS: Ingrid Bergman, foreign films, windy nights in San Francisco, ghost towns, Chinese ponds
TURNOFFS: Men who don't mean what they say.
WHAT I LIKE IN MEN: Hairy chests, sense of humor, intelligence, strength of character and warm personalities.
WHAT I DISLIKE IN MEN: Gambling, excessive drinking, overly aggressive personalities.
HIGHER ED: I'm studying liberal arts and drama at Santa Monica Junior College.
FAVORITE SPORTS: Swimming, skiing, sailboating.
HOBBIES: Horseback riding, bicycle riding, reading, and extensive travel to places like Hawaii and Mexico.
DID YOU SEE ME? I just completed a part in the new film, "The Phantom Planet."