Evening star., 1946-10-06
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November 27.
Prenuptial parties are in the Of
fng for Pat Parker, daughter of Col.
and Mrs. George Parker of Ward
man Park, whose engagement to 1t.
Col. Grayson Headley,, U. S. A., was
announced last week. Pat was honor
guest Friday at a luncheon and
shower given at Pierre's by Patricia
McGehee, daughter of the Represent
ative from Pats home State, Mis-
sissippi, and Mrs. Dan r. McGehee.
Those on the guest list were Mrs.
William Boren, Pats guest from
Jackson, Miss; Mrs. Nathaniel Ma
con Martin formerly Virginia Sum-
mers), Elaine LIE Fevre, Sally Nc
Grath, Jane Tate, Mary Jane Moran.
Edwina Pou Walden, Romona
North, Ann Gillespie and Bonnie
Crenshaw.
Over at Marine Barracks Tuesday
evening the Commandant and Mrs.
Alexander A. Vandegrift will be
hosts at a dinner party that win
precede the generals forthcoming
trip to the Pacific. Mrs. Vandegrift
will remain here during her hus-
bands absence overseas.
wednesday evening Gen. and Mrs.
Vandegrift gave q dinner for Maj.
Gen. and Mrs. A. II. Tlrnage. The
party was double farewell, as Gen.
Ttrnage also viii leave Washington
shortly. His new assignment will be
Honolulu, where he viii report for
duty the middle of November. just
now he is winding up his work at
Marine Headquarters preparatory
to taking leave November /, and
Mrs. Turnage has Joined her mother,
Mrs. A. j. Pyke, in Whitewater, Va.
When the Queen Elizabeth docks
at New York October 81 among the
passengers will be Mr.. and Mrs.
William Walmsley, brother-in-law
and sister of Mrs. Turnage. There
will be a family reunion, then, as
the Waln1sleys have not been in this
country for the past eight years.
At the Vandegrifts' dinner Wed.
nesday for Gen. and Mrs. Turnage,
the other guests were Maj. Gen.
and Mrs. Clifton Gates. Brig. Gen.
and Mrs. Franklin Hart Brig. Gen.
and Mrs. Capers James, Brig. Gen.
and Mrs. Elmer Hall, Col. and Mrs.
Robert Pepper, Col. and Mrs. Donald
Kendall, Mrs. John Thomson and
Mai. Gen. Ross Rowell. The party
was given a day or two following
the Vandegrifts' return from Ponte
vedra, Fla, where they spent de-
lightful 10 days.
Parties for CHESTS
I Gen. and Mrs. Hart were guests
at another dinner party during the
week. Col. and Mrs. Donald 5.
Curtis were hosts at the Army Navy
Country Club last evening, when
Gen. and Mrs. Hart We're their honor
guests. The company numbered
IA. Over from Baltimore for the
event came Mrs, Curtis brother and
|sister-in-law, the Donald A. Thomp-
sons. who are remaining through
the week end.
The Curtises also had house guests
earlier In the week, when Mr.. and
Mrs. William Stauffer of Santa Ana.
Calf, stopped of for q couple OF
days on their way to New Orleans.
A farewell party will be given this
evening at the Army Navy Country
Club for Vice Admiral and Mrs. Ben
Moreell. Ofiicers of the Navy's Civil
Engineer Corps are to be the hosts
and the cocktail and buffet supper
party will be from until 9 o'clock.
Two hundred guests are expected.
Admiral Moreen resigned from the
Navy on October to become presi-
dent of the Turner Construction Co.
of New York. His last assignment
was as Chief of the Material Di-
vision OF the Navy Department, serv-
ing under the Undersecretary OF the
Navy, and his wartime job was that
of chief of the Bureau of Yards ana
Docks. AS organizer of the Seabees,
he frequently was called the King
Bee.
Just now Admiral and Mrs. Moreell
have as house guests Rear Admiral
and Mrs. Lewis B. Combs, whose
home is in Larchmont, N. Y. The
Combses arrived yesterday and will
remain through Tuesday.
| 1t. Gen. and Mrs. Ira Eaker,
recently back from Virginia Beach,
are off again on a two weeks vaca-
|tion, this time to New York. They
will visit friends on Long Island
before returning to Washington.
Mrs. Woodson Hooker leaves this
week end for her home in Danville,
KY, after a months visit with her
son and daughter -in-law, Col. and
Mrs. Woodson F. Hooker.
1t. Comdr. and Mrs. Donald j.
Hardy have guests over the week
lend 1t. Comdr. and Mrs. John r..
|Zullinger, who came from Annap-
lolis. Last evening the Hardys and
their guests were included In .
EDutch-treat dinner given at the
Army Navy Country Club by .
group Of Comdr. Hardy's. former
classmates.