Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-12-28
iYule Season Featured
By Family Reunions
At Quantico Post
Varied Festivities Exemplify
Christmas Spirit-Notable
Event of Week at Off
GERS Club-Personal
Mention.

QUANTICO, Va, December 27.--The
1890 Yuletide season has been marked
by many happy family reunions and
gay Christmas parties at the Marine
Barracks. Throughout the post area
traditional holly wreathS and brightly
laden trees proclaimed the holiday
spirit Interest outside of the home
festivities conferred in the Christmas
dance given last Tuesday evening at
the Off1cers' Club. Among those who
entertained with dinner parties before
the dance were Lieut. Col. and Mrs.
Andrew B. Drum. Their guests, who
went later to the dance, were Maj. Gen.
and Mrs. Smedley D. Butler, Maj. and
Mrs George S. Clarke, Maj. and Mrs.
Harold L. Parsons, Maj. and Mrs. Har-
old H. Utley and Capt. and Mrs Camp
bell H. Brown.
Capt. and Mrs Richard H. Jeschke
also entertained with a dinner party
before the dance, having as guests Maj.
and Mrs. Charles D. Barrett, Maj. and
Mrs. Harold S. Fassett, Maj. and Mrs
Karl I. Buse, Capt. and Mrs. Maurice
G. Holmes, Capt. and Mrs. Alfred H.
Noble, Maj. and Mrs. Lloyd L. Leech,
Capt and Mrs. Blythe @. Jones, Capt.
and Mrs. Elmer E. Hall, Lieut. and Mrs.
Walter c. Ansel and Lieut.. and Mrs.
Harold d. Harris.
Capt. and Mrs. Richard H. Jeschke
and their two children, Margaret and
Dick, celebrated Christmas in Wash
ington in the home of Mrs. Jeschke's
parents, DR.. and Mrs. j. r. DevereauX.
Miss Mary Louise Nutting gave din
ner party before the dance. Her guests
were Miss Ethel Butler, Miss Catherine
Clarke, Lieut.. Phillip Berkeley, Mr.
Smedley Butley, jr, and Mr.. Gordon
Brown.
A dinner party also was given by
!, Capt. and Mrs. John Kaluf before the
Hdance Tuesday evening. Their guests
were Capt. and Mrs. Walter w. Rogers,
Capt. and Mrs. John P. Adams, Lieut..
and Mrs. Alexander Gait and Mrs. Eliz-
abeth Randall Connor of Philadelphia,
mother of Mrs. Kaluf. Mrs. Conner Is
visiting her daughter and son-in-law
for the Christmas holidays.
Midshipman Burden r. Hastings is
home from the Naval Academy to spend
Christmas with his parents, Chief @. M.
Clerk and Mrs. A. P. Hastings.
Col. and Mrs. John r. Henley enter
tanned recently at dinner party, hav-'
tanned recently at dinner party, having
B. Drum, Maj. and Mrs. Harold L. Par
sons, Maj. and Mrs. Roger w. Peard
and Capt. and Mrs. Alfred H. Noble.
Maj. and Mrs. William G. Hawthorne
gave dinner party last Saturday, fol-
lowed by an evening devoted to the
game of keno. Their guests were Capt
and Mrs. Campbell H. Brown, Capt. and
Mrs. Richard H. JeSchke, Capt. and
Mrs. Maurice G. Holmes, Capt. and Mrs.
Franklin T. Steele, Lieut.. and Mrs WAL
ter A. Wachtler, Lieut.. and Mrs. James
d. Waller, Lieut. and Mrs. Clayton c.
Jerome, Lieut.. and Mrs. Theodore s.
Cartwright, Miss Ethel Butler and Mr..
Horace L. Allen OF Nashville, Tenn.
Capt. and Mrs. Campbell H. Brown
entertained several out-of-town guests
at dinner last Friday evening, the party
including Maj. and Mrs. j. M. Devers,
q. S. A, of Washington; Capt. Brock
inridge Day, u. s.. A., of Fort Bragg,
N. c., and his daughter, Miss Gertrude
Day, and Mr.. Horace L, Allen of NASH
vile, Tenn.
Mr. Tom Dick Butler entertained in
formally at dinner last Monday eve
ming, having as guests Miss Hope Nor
riS, Miss Eleanore Norris, Mr.. Charles
Price. IT., and Midshipman Bennett
Powers.
Many Of the younger set have come
home from school to spend the Christ
mas holidays with their parents. Mr..
Emedley Butler, jr, is here from the
Massachusetts Institute Of Technology,
where he IS in his senior year. Mr..
Tom Dick Butler also is at home from
the Episcopal High School in Alexan-
dr1R. Mr.. Gordon Eames Brown is
spending his vacation at the home Of
his parents, Comdr. and Mrs. Ernest
ton University. Miss Betty Price is here
from Goucher College in Baltimore, and
Mr.. Charles Price, r. from Manlius, to
spend their holidays with their parents,
Maj. and Mrs. Charles F. B. Price.
Miss Grace White, who is attending
George washington University, also Is
ut the home of her parents, Mai. and
Mrs. Arthur j. White. Miss Anne Net
tekoven, who is also attending George
washington University, is at home.
Miss Catharine Clarke is with her par
ents, MAJ and Mrs. George S. Clarke.
from the Holton Arms School in WASH
ington- Miss Virginia Henley, who Is
attending Notre Dame in Baltimore, is
IN the home Of Col. and Mrs. John B.
Henley. Mr.. Haven Davis has come
from Swabley School in Manassas, Va,
TO spend Christmas with Maj. and Mrs.
Russell H. Davis. Mr.. Carter Berkeley
u here with Brig. Gen. and Mrs. Ran
dOlph G. Berkeley, coming from Severn
School In Annapolis. Midshipman Rey-
holds II. Hayden is spending Christmas
IN the home of his father, Capt. Rey-
nolds Hayden, y. s. N.
Capt. and Mrs. Campbell H. Brown
have with them for the holidays Mrs.
Browns parents, Mr.. and Mrs. s. r.
Sanford, from Port Washington, Fla.
Mrs Browns brother-in-law. Mr.. Hor-
ace L. Allen Of Nashville, Tenn, also is
their house guest.
Capt. and Mrs. Harold c. Major have
gone TO Chicago for Christmas, to be
with Mrs. Majors mother
Lieut.. and Mrs Walter A. Wachtler
spent Christmas in Richmond as guests
Of Mrs. Wachtlers sister and brother
4n-law, Mr. and Mrs. w. J. West.
Maj. and Mrs. Karl I. Buse will pass
the holidays visiting relatives in Charles
ton, S. G.
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