Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-09-01
Flyers Are
Entertained
AtQuantico
Lieut.. Col. Geiger Is
Host to Squadron at
Officers Mess.

QUANTICO, Va. August 3l.-Lieut.
Col. r. S. Geiger entertained at a
cocktail party Wednesday afternoon
at the Officers Mess In honor OF Air
craft Squadron vO-eM, which leaves
on Thursday for temporary duty in
the Caribbean area. The members Of
this squadron. who we're honor guests,
are Lieut.. Col. J. T. Moore, who will
command the unit; Capt. L. N. Me-
daris. Capt. H. D. Boyden, Lieut.. w.
E. Dickey, Lieut.. F. M. June, Lieut..
z. c. Hopkins, Lieut.. r. B. Hurst and
Mr.. Ira Brock. About 100 guests were
present at the party.
Lieut. Col Anthony ]. Drexel Biddle,
U. S. Marine Corps Reserves, has re-
Gently reported on this post for two
weeks active duty. He will be In
charge of the special training Of the
5th Marines, Fleet Marine Force, in
the art Of bayonet fencing.
Col. and Mrs Biddle are at the
Carlton in Washington at present,
where they have as their guests this
week end Col. and Mrs. c. F. B. Price.
Saturday, September IA. has been
selected by Miss Elizabeth Mead Bar
Der for her marriage to Maj. William
Pettet Richards. Miss BARRIERS en-
gagement was announced last month
by her parents, Lieut.. Col. and Mrs.
Tom D. Barber. She is to be married
in her home at Portsmouth, N. H,
where Col. Barber is at present on
duty in command of the Naval Prison.
COL and Mrs. Walter Noa we're the
luncheon guests of Lieut.. Col and
Mrs. Maurice e. Shearer while visiting
on the post last Tuesday.
On Wednesday Mrs. Shearer enter
tanned Mrs. c. A. Lutz and Mrs. Fraser
Edwards Of Washington at luncheon.
A group of officers including Lieut..
Col. H. L. Larsen, Lieut.. Col. L. H.
Miller, Mai. r. L. Montague, Maj. L.
e. Woods and Maj. C. I. Murray left
the post this week for temporary duty
at Camp Pine, N. j., where they will
observe the Army maneuvers.
Mrs. j. T. Moore has been visiting
for q month with her parents, Mr..
and Mrs. F. w. Homer, in Wilkes
Barre, Pa.
Maj. and Mrs. w. T. Clement and
their three children returned last
week end after being away from the
post for six weeks. Maj. Clement
took a school course at Edgewood
Arsenal, in Maryland, while Mrs.
Clement and the children stayed at
the beach home of her brother-in-law
and sister, Prof. and Mrs. Albert
Crawford, Nantucket, Mass. Maj.
Clement joined his family upon COM
pletion of the course at Edgewood
and took them to Willoughby Lake
and for a trip to Quebec. On the
return journey they motored down the
Maine coast and stopped at Newport,
r. T., to visit Comdr and Mrs. j. B.
Will. Mrs. VIII is Mrs. Clements
sister.
Mrs. Campbell H. Brown and her
niece, Miss Martha Allen, returned
last Sunday from q weeks vacation
at Ocean City, Md. They made the
trip by motor.
The Quantico golf team was enter
tanned last Sunday while visiting at
Indian Head, Nd, for a match with
the Naval Ammunition Depot team
at luncheon given by Maj. and Mrs.
James e. Belts.
Maj. and Mrs Harold D. Shannon
and their daughters, Celeste and Viz
ginia, returned to Quantico recently
after six weeks vacation leave They
visited first in Rutherford NJ J. at
the home of Mrs. Shannon's sister,
Mrs. C. e. Boin, and spent q month
at West Thornton, N. H., driving
later to Fort Ticonderoga, N. Y. At
Greenwich, N. Y, the Shannons were
the guests Of Mrs. Shannon's mother,
Mrs. o. J. Smith, at the White Swan
Hotel.
Capt. and Mrs. Ralph Forsyth and
their daughter Jean are again at
Quantico. They have been visiting for
a month with Mrs. Forsyth's mother,
Mrs. Thompson, at Wrighters Lake,
Pa.
Capt. and Mrs. Vernon Guymon are
receiving congratulations on the birth
of a son August IA IN New Orleans,
La. The baby is to be named John
Mckay Guymon.
DR.. and Mrs. Guy E. Stair, who left
the post last week, were hosts st .
farewell dinner at the Officers' Mess
shortly before their departure. They
had as their guests DR.. and Mrs. Mil
ton Wrthlin, DR.. and Mrs. Hugh