Evening star., 1940-06-23
Orders Move
Officers at
West Point
Cadets Entertain
For Visiting
Midshipmen

WEST POINT, N. Y, June o.
Several officers left the post this
week for new stations. Maj. Lloyd
Van H. Durfee, accompanied by his
mother, Mrs. Durfee, and his sister,
Mrs. Dorothy Graham, went to Gov
ernors Island, where he is to be on
duty.
Capt. Joseph w. Cox. jr.. OF the
Engineer Corps, with Mrs. Cox, has
left to spend leave In Washington
and Wyoming, prior to going to his
new station at Philadelphia.
Capt. and Mrs. James J. Heriot,
who are to 60 to Hawaii, have
started on motor trip before SAIL
ing in August Capt. and Mrs
Francis A. March, Sd, have gone to
Fort Hoyle. Md.
Capt. and Mrs. Kenneth E. THE
baud are motoring to the West
Coast, where they plan to take a
transport for their new station at
Hawaii.
Capt. and Mrs. John A. IsherWood
are spending a short leave with his
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. John Isher-
wood, in New Bedford, Mass, and
her mother, Mrs. E. A. Stanley, at
Waterbury, VT.
Cadets Are Hosts
To Midshipmen.
The cadets of the first and third
classes, who are in summer camp
hn f1~ In
months, entertained the midship-
men who visited the post on their
summer cruise this week at a hop
in Cullum Hall Wednesday evening
Capt. and Mrs. John Westermeier
have visiting them for fortnight the
latter's sister Miss Ruth Melick OF
Brooklyn. Miss Marjorie Holmes OF
Englewood, N. j., will arrive today
to remain a week with the Wester-
meiers.
Maj. and Mrs. Joseph j. Canella
OF Moffett Field, Calf, are visiting
1t. Merle c. Fisher.
1t. and Mrs. Andrew P. O'Meara
have as their guests for 10 days the
formers mother, Mrs. Thomas
OMeara; his sister-in-law, Mrs.
Dan O'Meara, and his sister, Miss
Patricia O'Meara, all of West Bend,
Wis.
Col. and Mrs. Clayton E. Wheat,
who visited Col. and Mrs. Howard
McC. Snyder in Washington this
week, have returned to the post.
Capt. David F. Brown of the field
artillery, who has been on duty at
West Point as an instructor in
mathematics. and Mrs Brown are
visiting members of their families
in Texas and Oklahoma before
going to his new station at Fort
Hoyle, Md
The Col. Kimballs
At West Point.
Col. Allan j. Kimball of the Quar-
termaster Corps, formerly stationed
in Washington, and Mrs. Kimball
have arrived at West Point for sta
ton. Col. Kimball is to be on duty
as post quartermaster, relieving Col.
Frank ScoWden, who is ordered tc
Philadelphia for duty as comman-
dant OF the Quartermaster School.
1t. and Mrs. Cyrus L. Peterson
have left the garrison for Dallas.
Tex. where they will visit Mrs.
Peterson's parents. the Rev. and
Mrs. John P. Reynolds. i
Mrs. Frank Born and her daugh-
ter, Miss Grace Born, mother and
sister of Capt. Charles Born of the
Air Corps, plan to leave Monday
for Racine, Wis, where they will
spend the summer with Mrs. Born's
sister, Mrs. Edward Barret. Capt.
Born at present is at Patterson
Field with the members of the
Cadet Corps and his wife is visiting
her parents. Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph
Fountain. at Deadwood, S. Oak, for
the summer.
Mrs. Oliver K. Mess has ioined
Maj. Mess at Tobyhanna, Pa, where
he is on duty with the cadets of the
first class. Other wives who jolned
their husbands at Tobyhanna this
week end to remain a fortnight in
clude Mrs. Frederick H. Chaffee. Mrs.
Bjarne Furuholmen. Mrs. Frederic
j. Brown and Mrs. Frederick G.
Stritzinger, 4th.
Capt and Mrs John C. B. Elliott
and their small daughter Eleanor
are visiting Mrs. Elliott's parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. Truman Faffett, at
West Falmouth, Cape Cod, Mass.