Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1924-12-28
special Dispatch to The Star.

ANNAPOLIS, Md, December 81
The Rev Charles r. Brown, D. d.,
dean of the Divinity Sschool of Yale
University, who addressed the mid
shipmen Sunday evening, was enter
tanned over the week end by Supt
and Mrs. Henry B. Wilson.
Miss Mary Randall Magruder is en-
PERTAINING at her home, on Hanover
street, Miss Ellen w. Lynn, mem
her of the faculty Of Westover
Academy, Middlebury, Conn, and Miss
Rebecca L. Webster of Rochester,
n. Y.
Mr.. and Mrs. Peyton ]. Marshall of
Memphis, Tenn, are the holiday
guests Of Mr.. and Mrs. Robert L..
Burwell.
Following a custom OF years, Mr..
and l. Dorsey Gassaway kept open
house" at their residence, Church
circle, Christmas morning, immedi-
ately after service at st. Anne's. by
giving Christmas reception to their
friends.
Tuesday night after study hour"
the midshipmen held their usual
Christmas entertainment around a
huge Christmas tree in front of Ban
croft Hall, where they sang Christmas
songs and exchanged greetings be-
fore leaving for home on Christmas
eve. Hundreds of colored lights
feature was witnessed by hundreds of
townspeople In addition to those who
live within the Naval Academy in
closure
Mrs. John w. Baker of Boston is
visiting her cousin. Mrs. Franklin D.
Harms, wife of Capt. Harms, L. S. n.
Mrs. Harms is also entertaining Miss
Marion Thompson of New York. In
honor of her house guests Mrs Harms
Cot low ie,I =
before the midshipmen's Christmas
hop. Capt. Harms of the Naval War
college at Newport is with his family
for some days
Comdr. L. NJ. Atkins. L. s N, and
Mrs. Atkins and children are here to
pass the holiday season with Mrs.
Atkins mother, Mrs. Nevett Steele,
Franklin street.
Mr.. Ridgely P. Melvin has returned
to his home at Aberdeen, South River,
after trip to Panama.
Mrs. John B. Wells, who has been
visiting her son and daughter-in-law
in Des Moines, Iowa, has returned to
her home on Duke of Gloucester
street, where she will pass the YuIe-
tide season with her daughters,
Misses Beatrice and Frances Wells.
the former of the faculty of the Girls
seminary, Germantown, and the latter
of Baltimore
Francis and Thomas Du Bots. stu
dents of Donaldson School, are home
TO spend the holidays with their
parents, Capt. and Mrs. Barron P. Du
Bots at the Naval Academy.
Ensign E. c. Craig, of the Post
Graduate School, is spending the
christmas holidays at his home, in
Nashville, Tenn.
Miss Mildred Persons has as her
guests at the Manse over the holiday
hay~ -.
son of Minneapolis, Mimi, a sophie
more at Smith College, and Miss lisa
belle Alexander of Akron, Ohio.
Midshipman Schuyler n. Pyne is at
nome to spend the holidays with his
parents, Comdr. and Mrs. Frederick
Glover Pyne of Washington, and has
Wit, with him as his guest, Midshipman
Thomas B. Neblett
Comm odore Valentine Nelson cele-
brated his birthday Monday by giving
d party to a number of friends at the
nome of his brother-in-law. Mr.
FRANCIS T. Marchand, 211 Prince
George street.
Miss Alice Nixon of Atlantic Civ
was the week end guest of Mrs. B. P.
Du Bois.
Miss Katherine r. Alger. who has
been visiting her brother. Mr.. PhiIjn
X. Alger, at Schenectady. N. Y. ha s
returned to pass the holiday season
with her mother, Mrs. Philip r.
Alger.
Mr. and Mrs. A. B. McManus Of
Washington spent Christmas with the
latter's mother, Mrs. William NJ. Abb
bolt, Duke of Gloucester street.
Miss Dorothy Tardy, a student Of
Nassar College, is here to spend the
holiday season with her parents
Lieut.. Comdr. and Mrs. Walter B.
Tardy, Prince George street.
MRS: winters, wife of Lieut.. Comdr
theodore H. Winters, who has been
visiting her parents, Mr.. and Mrs F,
p. Bassett, on Spa Creek, passed the
Christmas holidays with her husband
in Philadelphia, where he is stationed,
awaiting the sailing of his ship for
China on January 2. Mrs Winters
will join him in the Orient in the
Spring.