Evening star., 1947-03-23
Full Day Of Parties
For Miss SH,1znzerIin
and 1t. Stevens

Yesterday was one continuous
party from afternoon on for Miss
! Virginia Summerlin and her f1ance,
1t. Hugh Stevens, III. In fact, the
entertaining for this popular couple
has been almost continooos ever
since their engagement was an
nounced and will not cease until
their wedding, March %.
! They were guests of honor at
cocktail party given yesterday after
noon by 1t. and Mrs. Arthur Hallett
Page, III, at a dinner last evening
given by Miss Joan Exnicios and
Miss Gloria Gilman, and earlier
in the day Miss Summerlin shared
honors with Miss Argentina Copello,
another bride-elect, at Miss Romano
North's luncheon.
Both the Pages will be in Miss
1 Summerlin's wedding. Mrs. Page will
be matron Of honor and her husband
will be an usher. Other members
of the bridal party, the parents OF
some of them and some OF the
Pages friends from Quantico made
UP their 80 some guests who gath
cred in the Pan American Room Of
the Mayflower between S and Z
o'clock.
1t. and Mrs. Page received with
their honor guests, Mrs. Page wear
ing a black afternoon dress and Or
child corsage and Miss Summerlln
clad in a black and white print
frock also topped by orchids.
Invited to drop by and have
pre-wedding aperetif were Gen. and
Mrs. A. A. Vandegrift, Col and
Mrs. Horace B. Smith, the BRIDE
elects parents of course, and the
hostess parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Elmer
Louis Kayser, Brig. Gen. and Mrs.
Charles r. Sanderson, Capt and
Mrs. Clinton Nilsson and Miss Nancy
Nilsson, Comdr and Mrs. Benjamin
H. Lingo and Miss Jane Lingo, Mr..
and Mrs. Willard Hart and Mr.. and
Mrs. Ralph Hudson with Mrs. John
Hudson.
Up from Quantico for the party
came Col. and Mrs. Clayton c. Je-
rome, Capt. and Mrs. Charles Gar
ber and 1t. and Mrs. R. H. Harper.
And from the younger set were Miss
Mary Calvert, Miss Gloria Gilman,
It. Col. James Bait, 1t. Comdr.
Harry Nichols, Mr.. and Mrs. Gordon
Dickey, Mr.. Robert Mead, 1t. Robert
Russell, Miss Joan ExnicioS, Mr..
Charles Maddox and Miss Llsette
Littlehales.
Miss Gilman and Miss. Exnicios
made an attractive looking pair OF
hostesses at the dinner they gave
almost Immediately following the
cocktail party at the Chevy Chase
Club. 1t was after eight though
before all their guests had gathered
at the club.
Miss Betty White, who moved
from here only few weeks ago,
came from New York especially for
this dinner dance, and Mr.. George
Gilman came down from the U. S.
Maritime Academy at Kingspoint,
m. Y.
The other guests were Miss Ursula
Buckley, who came from England
to be maid of honor in the wedding,
Mr.. and Mrs. Dickey, Miss Little
hales, Mr.. Carroll Morgan, jr.; Mr..
Kent Ives, Mr.. Barry Wallace, Mr..
Theodore Rolf, 1t. Arthur Tacke,
Mr.. William Crowdus, Mr.. Robert
Werlich and Mr.. Mario Santo Do
mingo. Sounds like the ideal ra-
ito of men to girls.
The guests at Miss North's lunch
con, which was given in the Louis
XVI Room at the Shoreham, were
the Misses Carolee Arnold, Anita
Baraibar, Mary Frances Breeding,
Ursula Buckley, Mary Calvert, Ade-
lima Copello, Katherine Elkins, Ann
Gillespie, Elaine LIE Fevre, Carmen
Leon, Jane Lingo, Marqjorie Lynch,
Marcia O,Brien, Annie Laurie Ran
kin, Elaine Trimble, Carolyn Wendt
and Edwina Walden; also Mrs.
Grayson Headley and Mrs. Lawrence
Smith.
| A colorful bouquet of spring
flowers decorated the luncheon
table and each of the guests Of
honor wore a corsage of gardenias
which had been given her by the
hostess.