Evening star., 1943-02-14


guson gave a dinner party last
evening for 20 guests, who were
invited to come to meet Mrs. Fer
guson's niece, Miss Peggy Louns-
bury. student at the American
Academy of Dramatic Art in New
York.
Miss LounSbury arrived in Ken
wood yesterday with several of her
classmates at the dramatic school
for week end of sightseeing and
parties and her visit here has been
one constant round of festivities
all very small and informal-but all
very jolly, nevertheless.
AS soon as her niece's visit is
over Mrs Ferguson will begin prepa-
rations for a tour of the service
camps OF the Southern Atlantic
States. Mrs. Ferguson is an ac-
complished musician and has made
a name for herself as a concert
pianist. She studied at the Chicago
Musical College and abroad.
Last fall she wrote the words and
music of Hes Yankee Soldier
Boy march song for the men in
the services. 1t is an accommodating
sort of tune that can be used in
many ways, and the boys in the
camps like it. Originally written
as a song with piano accompani-
ment, 1t now has an arrangement
for full concert band. 1t is a
~ 1C
enough to be good whistling tune
and a recent arrangement with a
little change in rhythm makes it a
good swing dance tune
Capt. Thomas F.. Darcy, jr., United
States Army Band leader, introduced
it on one of the first radio broad
casts from the new Army band
auditorium at Fort Myer and now
Mrs. Ferguson has been asked to
visit the Army camps to play for
the servicemen. She will give three
concerts at each camp and some
where on each program, Of course,
will be her own song, Hes YAM
kee Soldier Boy"
Another of the Montgomery Coun-
ty women. who intersperses her work
for the Servicemen with her social
activities and who never lets her
social life interfere with her war
work is Mrs. Charles w. o. Bunker,
wife of Admiral Bunker of the Ma
tional Naval Medical Center.
Mrs Bunker works with the Grey
Ladies-she was with the first class
of the Grey Ladies to be trained
for duty at the old Naval Hospital.
She is chairman of the committee
which is collecting books and pic
ture puzzles and playing cards for
the patients at the Naval Hospital
and she does the thousandand-one
other odd jobs that do not seem to
be assigned to any one person.
Mrs. Bunker has planned ever
since last fall to take a trip north
to visit relatives, but whenever she
gets ready to go some new piece of
work develops and the trip is post
poned to more convenient time.
Just now her main interest is the
who recently arrived here
tor their indoctrination. They will
be at the Center only q few weeks
and Mrs. Bunker is cooperating
With Miss Mary Dunn, who is sta
toned at the Center as field ,di-
rector OF the American Red Cross,
IN working out some plan by which
these girls, most of whom have not
been in Washington before, can be
taken on sightseeing trips about the
city.
Mrs. Gordon M. Kline has turned
over her work as chairman Of the
Blood Donor Committee for Battery
Park to her assistants and has gone
with DR.. Kline to attend the Pfastics
Institute in Los Angeles, Calf. DR..
Kline Is director of the institute
DR.. and Mrs. Kline took their
daughter, Miss Ann Kline, to Cali
fornia with them and their trip will
include stopover in New Orleans
and a visit with Mrs. John Becoue.
the former Mrs. Beatrice Kurtz
Hanson of Bethesda, now living in
New Orleans. DR.. and Mrs. Kline
will also stop in San Francisco to
visit Mr.. and Mrs. Frank r. Stoll,
one time residents of Washington,
before returning to their home here.
Mrs. David r. Starry is back at