The Wilmington morning star., 1947-07-30

entertainment ball rolling over
parties as she celebrated her EN-
Before l enter a narratiE OF
the gay doings Of Cynthia's great
nineteenth, just a dropping Of a
few words to a that many Of
the party-goers have slipped out
Of the thrilling teens into the rear
ing twenties; but because I hap
pened to enjoy the FULFILLED week
end also, the opportunity FOR let
ting you know about it in
this pillar can definitely not be
passed up. SC we won't at
t, mpt to drag the ancient twenty
year-olds into our hep age under
false pretenses!
Cynthia welcomed several v:si-
tors to her home over the few
days to help her enjoy her birth
Gay. Peggy Bonner came down
Thursday afternoon from Eliza
oeth City to stay over until Mon
day morning. Peggy and Cynthia
have been big buddies since their
meeting at Camp Leach a sum-
mer or two ago.
Nine months in Washington, D.
c., added many friends 20 Gym
thia's present host. While she was
al Marjorie Webster last year, Ter
social life included a very nice
character, "Tomr,y" Thomson.
Tommy's real John Henry is Ar
thur T., but the nickname has been
derived from his last name; thus
he is known.
Tommy hustled down to N. c..
over the weekend with Paul Cook,
who Immediately was tagged
Cookie" by the crowd here. Both
Cookie and Tommy are stationed
az the National Naval Medical
Center in Bethesda, Maryland
Just outside Of the Capitol City.
incidentally the two sailocs are
buddies of Joe Gray. who was sta
toned at Bethesda for a while,
and who is now nearing Gibraltar
on a five months cruise.
Tommy halls from Kansas City,
Mo-, aud Cookie calls Tope|a
home.
The partying fun of ring out
the old, ring in the new" was
g~-oriously spanked in Saturday
afternoon as the groups of char
scters headed towards the beach
FOR an afternoon swim, and the
celebration wore or into a weine1
roast that night.
A cracking fire lit the faces ct
those standing around with a
sandwich in one hand and a pickle
in the other. Standing ankle deep
in the sand, fighting a losing war
with sandflies ard mosquitoes,
were Cynthia and Tommy, Anna
Kamer and Dick Phelps; and
Jimmy McCarl and l were bat
thing it out with tHose worrlsome
Insects just as fast and furiouslv,.
The moon was hugh in the sky,
but as somebody reached for a
ueiner to jab or a crude stick a
raindrop hit somebody else's nose.
A mad scramble to cover the Coed
ensued, and protection in The form
If a blanket was found.
Huddled under cover sitting on
DRY sand with a hot dog poked
ronchantly in the brave fire were
Eleanor Wille:ts and George
Forbes, who refused to allow a
mere downpour to halt a bite to
eat. Equally determined but re-
fusing to leave dry sand for wet
sand to be closer to the fire were
Piggy Bonner and Hooper Johnson.
Shirley Brown and Cookie had no
choice Of wet or dry as the pro-
lection gave out. SO the rain drops
centered attention On the Two.
AS the rain continued merciless-
ly, we dashed to the cars and
journeyed farther up the beach to
dryer land. AS we headed that
ray, we were joined by Pat Hard
wicke and Delmar Setter, Sara
Williams and Paul Baschon,
At long last h hungry ones
were satisfied, so we then decided
to take the rides at the Carolina
Beach amusement park.
Cynthia and Tommy, Eleanor
and George, Peggy and Hooper,
Shirley and Cookie Immediately
stepped toward the swings; and
later Peggy and Hooper sat OIL
the sidelines with the rest of us
while the three couples climbed
aboard the "Octopus."
A few minutes later found Flea
nor, George, Jimmy, Cynthia,
Tommy, and Hooper, scooting
over the "Tilt-A-Whirl". And as
the rides give me butterflies. I
felt woozy just watching Hooper
end George, Shirley and Cookie
Drawing the "Bullet!"
Gazing around at the parF, I