Evening star., 1946-08-04
Bethesda.Lower Montgomery County
Country Gibbs Are Mecca
For Nearby Younger Set
By Lillian 4rfhur

With five country clubs almost
within walking distance, Bethesda
in August takes on the characters
tics Of summer resort. For those
who spend their vacations at home
there are the pools for swimmers,
courts for tennis fans, good places
to eat and good music for those who
want to dance after their late after
moons at the pools.
In the early morning of any warm
day you might run across Margaret
Sanderson Ammussen giving her
baby daughter Tharon a dip in
the Kenwood Club pool, and usually
with her Or coming shortly after is
Sally Dudley Scott and little 2-year-
old Claudia Scott.
1t will. of course, be many a long
day before these youngsters will
enter swimming contests but Just
now they are a lot of fun to watch
as they dip their little pink toes
In the water and step out quickly
If the water is too cool.
Later in the morning the young
mothers leave and one by one the
teen-agers OF Kenwood drift in for
cool swim and a good time with
the crowd.
There Is Barbara Bolton and
Genevieve Murray and the two
younger Sanderson girls, Louise and
Mary Ann. Jocelyn Freer usually
drops in during the late afternoon
squired by her brother, good looking
Barry Freer, and often two or three
OF Barry's friends are with him,
Guillermo Machado, the son of the
Venezuelan Ambassador; Cadet Bill
Hammond and Maj. Walter Zim-
norman, who was Jocelyn's dancing
partner when the two won the prize
for the best dancing at the Rose
mary Ball which the American
Newspaper Women's Club gave last
spring. Jocelyn swims as we'll as
she dances and she was a regular
prize winner in her subdeb davs
When she used to swim at the Army
and Navy Club.
Next week, however, there will be
slight lull in the swimming fes-
tivities and the pool will be a bit
empty since some of the girls are
going away. The three Sanderson
girls, Mrs. Ammussen' and Louise
and Mary Ann and Baby Tharon
are going to Virginia Beach to STAY
until the middle of August.
Jocelyn Freer is spending the week
IN Rehoboth with Mr.. and Mrs,
Herbert M. Bingham, and brother
Barry will join her there for the
week end.
Barbara Bolton left Thursday for
an FGS house party at Oceon
City, Md. At the party also are
Lucret1a Lincoln, Susan Wilson,
Joan Schweinhaut, Nancy Fisher,
Jane Wilson and Mary Lois Pen
dleton.
Mrs. Bolton, Barbara's mother
and Mrs, Henry Schweinhaut are
chaperoning the girls at the party.
Ann Murray will also be away for
few days. She is leaving this week
Tor Chicago to visit Catherine HAYS,
one OF her classmates at Holy Gross
Academy. Her older sister Gene
We've is just back from a vacation
spent in Wisconsin with Rene de
la Chappelle, a school friend at
Rosemont College.
Betty Hodges, another Kenwood
girl who often is seen at the pool, is
also out Of town for a few DAYS.
She Is visiting jeanne Bobrink. a
former Washington girl, now living
in Cohasset, Mass.
A little farther up in the county
is the Edgemoor Club with its own
pool that provides recreation for
another group of girls. Nancy Mo-
ran, home for vacation from Wash
1ngton College, and her sister Leila,
who was graduated from Hood Col
lege in June, are often at the pool
IN the evening and on week ends
when they usually have a group of
friends with them.
LII the group also are Joyce Smith,
a prelaw student at the University
OF Maryland, who, by the way, is
going to Pittsburgh next week, and
Ann Myers and Phyllis Lacey, all
of Edgemoor.
Bethesdans were much interested
In the announcement in Thursdays
newspapers that Col. William A,
Eddy, whose wife is a sister of Mrs.
Philip Chaff1n and of Mr.. Norman
Garvin, has been made chief of the
State Departments new intelligence
unit as direct aide to Secretary
Byrnes. Col Eddy will have the
rank of Assistant Secretary of State.
He will direct the work of nearly
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