The following is a list of Playboy Playmates of 1968. Playboy magazine names its Playmate of the Month each month throughout the year.
January
Connie Kreski (September 19, 1946 – March 21, 1995), an American model and actress, is Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Month for January 1968 and Playmate of the Year for 1969. Kreski had long taffy-colored hair and blue eyes.
Kreski died of a blocked carotid artery on March 21, 1995, in Beverly Hills, California.
February
Nancy Harwood (December 17, 1948 – May 13, 2014) was Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Month for its February 1968 issue. Her centerfold was photographed by William Figge and Ed DeLong. She describes herself in her Playboy.com biography page as "really inexperienced, still a virgin, in fact" at the time she posed for her centerfold.
Nancy had an older brother and an older sister. Her father was a pharmacist. She became a representative for several jewelry makers, as well as the one-time president of the Centerfold Alumni Association.
March
Michelle Hamilton (born Roxanna Platt on December 20, 1948, in Elmira, New York) was Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Month for its March 1968 issue. She made a prior appearance in Playboy in the November 1967 issue in the Playboy Charter Yacht Party pictorial (starting on page 133) as "Roxanna". Her centerfold was photographed by William Figge and Ed DeLong.
April
Gaye Rennie (born September 21, 1949, in Los Angeles) was Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Month for its April 1968 issue. Her centerfold was photographed by William Figge and Ed DeLong.
May
Elizabeth Jordan (born January 11, 1945, in Fort Myers, Florida) was Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Month for its May 1968 issue. Her centerfold was photographed by Mario Casilli.
In addition to being a Playmate, Jordan was also a Bunny at the Playboy Clubs in Chicago, New York City and Atlanta. According to The Playmate Book, she later became the associate dean of an unnamed university in the Western United States.
June
Britt Fredriksen (born 1 October 1945 in Norway) was Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Month for its June 1968 issue. Her centerfold was photographed by Pompeo Posar.
July
Melodye Prentiss (December 14, 1944 in Chicago – March 3, 2009 in California) was Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Month for its July 1968 issue. Her centerfold was photographed by Pompeo Posar.
Melodye was working in the Playboy editorial library when she was "discovered" by the magazine as Playmate material. She studied fine art and painting at both the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts and the University of Chicago.
Prentiss died on March 3, 2009, after taking medications that made her unable to breathe following knee surgery and other illnesses.
August
Gale Olson (born October 27, 1947, in Fort Sill, Oklahoma) was Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Month for its August 1968 issue. Her centerfold was photographed by Ron Vogel.
Her mother was from New Zealand, and her father was in the United States Army. Gale grew up with five brothers and three sisters.
For a time, Gale worked as a Bunny at the Chicago Playboy Club.
Olson's daughter, Crystal McCahill, appeared on the November 9, 2008 edition of The Girls Next Door at the Hooters near Chicago's O'Hare International Airport, in a radio interview with Bridget Marquardt and McCahill's tryout effort for the 55th anniversary edition of Playboy in January 2009. McCahill is the May 2009 Playmate of the Month.
September
Drucilla Hart (born November 25, 1948, in San Fernando, California) was Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Month for its September 1968 issue. Her centerfold was photographed by Bill Figge and Mel Figge. At the time of her pictorial, Hart was working as a legal secretary.
October
Majken Haugedal (born 26 March 1947 in Copenhagen, Denmark) was Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Month for its October 1968 issue. Her centerfold was photographed by Pompeo Posar.
Posar is quoted in The Playmate Book as saying that Majken and Connie Kreski were the two finalists for the title of 1969 Playmate of the Year. Kreski won the title in the long run, but Majken posed for Playboy again in the April 1984 pictorial "Playmates Forever! Part Two."
November
Paige Young (March 16, 1944 – April 7, 1974) was Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Month for its November 1968 issue. Her centerfold was photographed by Peter Gowland.
December
Cynthia Myers (September 12, 1950 – November 4, 2011) was an American model and actress, and Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Month for the December 1968 issue.