Evening star., 1946-08-25
Bethesda.Lower Montgomery County
Letters Relate Experiences ;,
OF Girls Who Went Abr0ad
By Lillian Arthur

Part OF the pleasure of a vacation
trip Is the fun of coming home
again to find your friends waiting
for news of your trip and to heal
what has happened to you while
YOU have been away.
Miss Jeanne Tucker and Miss
Suzanne Parker, the two young
women who went to South America
for their vacation, have their home
coming to look forward to, for theil
friends who have heard of their trip
through their letters will want te
hear more of their adventures from
the girls themselves.
They are due to arrive here about
the 10th of next month. Since late
July they have been visiting Miss
fuckers brother, Dom Tucker, oil
the Panagra Air Lines, who is at
present stationed in Quito, Ecuador
Miss Tucker and Miss Parker
made the trip from Miami by plane
and the story of their experiences
has something of the flavor OF
Cornelia Otis SINNERS "Our Hearts
Were Young and Gay" and is just
what one would expect from two
wide-awake young college girls on
a sightseeing tour in a new country
There is the story of the time
their plane was grounded and they
were held up two days in Balboa |;
Of their trip to Quayaquill; of the
casual, easy life in the tropics and
of their relief when they found the
textbook Spanish they learned in
school proved a very satisfactory
medium for ordering food and
carrying on conversation with the
Ecuadoreans.
A recent letter from these two
travellers tells of the parties that
are being given for them by the
residents of the American colony
in Quito and of cocktail party that
Mr.. Tucker gave for the two girls.
About 100 guests were present, most
OF them Mr.. fuckers friends whom
the girls had met in the American
colony.
Miss Tucker will go back to Trim
ity College this fall soon after she
arrives home and Miss Parker will
return to the University of Mary
land.
Miss Virginia Ford of Somerset
has had an interesting summer,
also. She flew to Europe with her
uncle and aunt, Mr.. and Mrs. j.
Howard Ford, and spent two months
in Paris.
Her trip was somewhat less ad-
venturous than that of Miss Tucker
and Miss Parker because she visited
friends in Paris; and her sightsee-
ing was under the care of her
friends. Miss Ford's trip did, how
ever, include good many first ex-
periences. 1t was her first trans
Atlantic flight, her first trip to
Paris, and she and her uncle and
aunt were told that they were the
first civilian tourists to enter
Switzerland. She got her first Paris
suit and she came back with a whole
new wardrobe of school dresses all
made in that city, and that is
thrill for any girl
Mr.. and Mrs. Ford and Virginia
visited Mr.. and Mrs j. Viglieno
during their stay in Paris and the
two Viglieno girls, Monique and
Francois, came back to this country
with them. Monique and Francois
will attend Holton Arms School and
live with Mr.. and Mrs. Ford while
they are here.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ford and their niece
will take the two Viglieno girls on a
trip to New York over Labor Day
to give them a taste of sightseeing
in America before they start to
school.
Bethesda is hearing a good bit
about Mexico also, from two fam
lilies who went there for their vaca-
ton.
Prof. and Mrs. Donald Young
and their daughter, Barbara, and
DR.. and Mrs. r. R. Spencer were all
there during the summer. But they
were not there at the same time and
they did not do the same things. so
their stories of their trips are quite
different.
Prof. and Mrs. Young and their
daughter were on a sightseeing trip
and covered as much ground as they