Evening star., 1935-06-02

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June IA number Of changes in the
officer personnel of the post are taking
place, with many going and coming.
Several officers and their families de-
parted this week for leave and their
new posts.
Among those going were Maj. and
Mrs. Walton H. Walker. who are now
motoring to Texas to spend about six
weeks leave visiting Maj. walkers
mother, Mrs. Sam Walker, before re-
turning to Washington. where Mai.
Walker will attend the Army War COL
lege
Capt and Mrs. Pearne c. Wilders,
whose next post is Fort Niagara, N. Y.
also left during the week. They plan
to spend leave in Ohio visiting their
families before going to their new sta
ton. Others to leave were Lieut.. and
Mrs. Donald NICK. Ashton, who Will
60 to Fort Smelling.
Lieut.. and Mrs. Rothwell H. Brown,
who have been at Fort Meade since
last Autumn, leave the post today.
They plan to spend month visiting
Lieut.. Browns family in Virginia. after
which Lieut.. Brown will go on to Fort
Benning, where he is to attend the
coming term Of the Infantry School,
and Mrs. Brown and their two small
daughters will leave for California to
spend two months with her parents,
Maj. Daniel J. Hayes, U. S. A., retired,
and Mrs. Hayes, before joining Lieut..
Brown at Fort Benning early in Sep
tember.
Entertaining in honor Of several
L. Monroe Bricker and Capt. and Mrs.
Joseph o. Ensrud were joint hosts
Wednesday evening at the dinner
dance at the Army-Navy Club in
Washington. Their honor guests were
Maj and Mrs. Walton H. Walker. Maj.
and Mrs. Carl j. Adler. Capt. and Mrs.
Pearne C. Wilders and Lieut.. and Mrs.
Donald NICK. Ashton.
Among the new arrivals were Maj.
and Mrs. Henry G. Sebastian, formerly
of the 5th Infantry, Fort Williams,
Me-, who reached Fort Meade Tuesday
and are now occupying quarters O-64.
Mai. Sebastian Is to be assigned to the
34th Infantry.
Mrs. Francis Richter Ledig. form
erly Miss Faye Bromley, who was
married last month and has been
living in Lock Haven, Pa, was
guest on the post last week, when she
visited Mrs. C. d. Carle, who has
since left for Cumberland, Md. Lieut..
Ledig, who Is on C. c. C. duty, has
left for Sacramento. Calf. to take
up his duties, and Mrs. Ledig plans
to join him there in the near future.
Capt. and Mrs. Robert w. Burke.
who arrived at Fort Meade during
April for station, left last week for
Gettysburg. Pa. where Capt. Burke
has been transferred for duty with
the c. c. c.
Having Just returned to the United
States from a tour of France, Mrs.
Robert I. Stack arrived at Fort
Meade last Saturday to join Capt.
Stack. Capt. Stack, who has been
an instructor In the Reserve Ohlcers'
School held here for a month, is to
remain another month as an in
structor in the second Reserve Off,
GERS School, which started today.
Among the hostesses Of the week
was Mrs. Ray H. Larkins, who enter
tanned IL ladies in her quarters at
luncheon on Tuesday. After lunch
several of Mrs. Larkins' guests at
tended the meeting of the Ladies'
Afternoon Bridge Club, held for the
first time this Summer at the newly
decorated golf club house.
Bridge club hostesses were Mrs. Paul
j. Mitchell, Mrs. Herbert B. Thatcher
and Mrs. John M. Brett and the prize
winners for high scores were Mrs.
Armistead D. Mead, jr.; Mrs. Francis
]. Gillespie, Mrs. John Lindner and
Mrs. Benjamin Norris.
Because Mrs. Carl j. Adler, the
present secretary Of the Afternoon
Bridge Club, who has held that post
for the past three years, is to leave
in July for new station at Fort War
rem, Wyo., the club unanimously
elected as her successor Mrs. Benja-
min Norris, who will take up her
duties at once.
Wednesday evening, May %, Lieut..
and Mrs. John H. Evans had as their
dinner guests Lieut.. and Mrs. Roth
well II. Brown and Lieut.. Charles L.
Keerans of Fort Howard.
Mrs. z. H. Leeward of Brooklyn,
N. Y, left for her home last week
after having spent several days on
the post as the guest Of her son-in-
law and daughter, Lieut.. and Mrs.
Robert w. Ward.
Lieut.. and Mrs. Ward have as their
house guest for this present week
ened Miss Mary Bastow of Jamaica,
Long Island, N. Y.
Mrs. Harold w. Churchill's parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. e. H. Mulford Of Mon
tauk Falls, N. Y, left on Monday for
their home after having spent 10
days visiting their daughter and Capt.
Churchill.
Capt. and Mrs. Elbert A. Nostrand
Of Fort Howard were recent visitors
On the post whaA they were the