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Berendsens
To Be Feted
Before Game
By Betty MHliken

The Minister of New Zealand and
Lady Berendsen are basket ball
enthusiasts, particularly where the
United States Marines are con-
cerned. Recently they attended q
game in Quantico, and on February
25, will be guests of the Com
mandant of the Marine Corps and
Mrs. Alexander A. Vandegrift at a
match between the Marine Bars
racks team and the Quantico team,
preceded by dinner party in the
Commandant's Quarters.
Gen. and Mrs. Vandegrift also
will be hosts at dinner tomorrow
evening, when the Attorney Gen.
eral and Mrs. Tom Clark and the
Assistant Secretary of the Navy for
Air and Mrs. John Nicholas Brown
will be in the large company Of
prominent guests.
1t. Gen. and Mrs. Wade Haislip
will entertain at cocktail party
Tuesday, in compliment to Miss
Virginia Summerlin, daughter OF
Mrs. Horace B. Smith, who will be
married at the end of March to
1t. q. g. Hugh Harrington Clarke
Stevens, III, (M. c. U. S. N. r.,
son of Mr.. and Mrs. Hugh Stevens
of ala-Cynwyd, Pa.
. Miss Summerlin and her fiance.
who is an inferno at the Naval
Hospital in Bethesda. were honor
guests at a dinner given last evening
at the Chevy Chase Club by Miss
Nancy Thomas, daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. Francis D. Thomas, pre-
ceding the Dancing Glass at the
Sulgrave Club. Miss Thomas ar
rived Friday from Vassar College
for the week end.
Vice Admiral and Mrs. Patrick N.
L. Bellinger also were hosts at
dinner before the Dancing Glass,
entertaining company of IL at the
1925 F Street Club.
Vice Admiral and Mrs. Ross T.
McIntire will be honor guests at
dinner to be given March by DR..
and Mrs. Herbert P. Ramsey in the
Chinese Room of the Mayflower
Hotel
Brig. Gen. and Mrs. Willard A.
Holbrook will entertain at a cocktail
party this afternoon in honor of ths
Rev. H. Fairfield Butt, rector Of
Christ Church in Baltimore, and
Mrs. Butt. The party will be re-
union of old friends of the hosts and
honor guests, as Mrs Butt is the
former Miss Elizabeth Edison Of
Washington and her husband re-
Gently was retired from active duty
in the Chaplain Corps of the Navy.
Valentine Party
Miss Louise Dolly Scruggs,
daughter of Capt. Richard M.
Scruggs, U. S. NJ, and Mrs. Scruggs,
entertained a group Of her young
friends at the Sail Loft Dance Fri
day night at the Naval Gun Factory.
Her guests were the Misses Fairfax
Roddy, Mary Ann Wilkie, Mary TuI-
ley, Victoria Colestock, Gail Hall and
Jonne Holbrook, and the Messrs.
Harris Sherer, Ted Hilliard, Gwen
Ordway, Paul Raveno, Murray Miles
ana PeCeT RAWLINGS.
The Surgeon General of the Army
and Mrs. Norman T. Kirk enter
tanned at cocktails last evening in
their quarters at the Army Medical
Center, later taking their guests to
the Valentine dinner dance at the
Officers Club.
Their guests included Brig. Gen.
and Mrs. George c. Beach, Brig.
Gen. and Mrs. Raymond w, Bliss,
Brig. Gen. and Mrs. Sidney Chap
pell, Brig. Gen. and Mrs. Guy B.
Denip, Brig. Gen. and Mrs. Albert
Kenner, Brig. Gen. and Mrs.
Thomas L. Smith, Col. and Mrs.
Harold I. Amory, Col and Mrs.
Harry Bishop, Col. and Mrs. Frank
L. Cole, Col. and Mrs Samuel l..
Cooke, Col. and Mrs. Virgil H.
Cornell, Col. and Mrs. Robert l..
Cavenaugh, Col. and Mrs. Daniel
C. Campbell, Col. and Mrs. Ray
mond Dart, Col. and Mrs. Francis
Endicott, Col. and Mrs. James o.
Gillespie, Col. and Mrs. F. E. Hamil-
ton, Col. and Mrs. Rufus L. Holt, Col.
and Mrs. Harold w. Jones, Col. and
Mrs. Austin Lowery, Col. and Mrs.
Clifford v. Morgan, Col. and Mrs.
Charles S. Mudgett, Col. and Mrs.
William w. Nichol, Col. and Mrs.
Earle Standlee, Col. and Mrs. Robert
B. Skinner, Col. and Mrs. William
F.. Scheumann, Col. and Mrs. Robert
j. Wilson, 1t. Col and Mrs. Louis
F. Williams, It. Col. and Mrs. Harry
L. Willard, 1t Col. and Mrs. An
thony j. Zolinas. Senator and Mrs.
Chan Gurney, Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur
H. johnson, Mrs. Irene Donahue and
Mrs. James Kimbrough.
Col. and Mrs. George E. ARM
strong also were hosts at the dinner
dance last evening, their guests in
Guiding Col. and Mrs. o. j. Posey,
COL and Mrs. Thomas j. Hartford,
Col and Mrs. Kester L. Hastings,
Col. and Mrs. Allen N. Bracher,
Col and Mrs. H. E. Leech, 1t. Col.
(See MILLIKIN, Page D-5D