Evening star., 1948-10-31
Parties Given
For Visitors
InSeruice Set
Other News
Of Interest
By Betty Murphy

Mrs. George A. Pqllin, wife of Col.
Pollin, U. S. A.. retired, has been
having delightful time visiting old
friends since coming East from her
home in Oklahoma City. Today she j,
will terminate her stay with the
Chief of Staff and Mrs. Omar II.
Bradley and will spend the next few
days at the home of Col. and Mrs.
Theodore F. Vessels. From there
she will 60 to Philadelphia to visit
her son, Capt. Jack Pollin, a post
graduate student at the University
of Pennsylvania, and later on she
plans to return to Washington to
be the guest of Maj. Gen. apd Mrs.
William H. Arnold. Just now the
Arnolds have Mrs. Arnold's parents,
the Joseph Mullens, with them from
st. Louis.
Meanwhile. parties for Mrs. Pollin
have been occurring daily, as many
of hers and her husbands friends
who were stationed together at Fort
Benning before Pearl Harbor, have
been anxious to talk over old times
and to'have game Of bridge. Mrs.
Bradley had small group for lunch-
con in Mrs. Pollin's honor yesterday
at Fort Myer, and on Tuesday will
entertain her again at one of the
weekly bridge e-luncheons which were
started years ago at Fort Benning.
Another old friend, Mrs. Matthew
j. Gunner, gave luncheon Friday
at the Army and Navy Club for Mrs.
Pollin. Her guests also included Mrs.
Bradley, Mrs. Vessels, Mrs. Russell
Skinner. who plans a bridge-lunch-
con in Mrs Pollins honor tomorrow;
Mrs. Russell Reynolds, Mrs. Francis
Endicott and Mrs. j. K. Bush.
Holbrooks Away
Brig. Gen. and Mrs. Willard A.
Holbrook also expect to fete Mrs.
Pollin, but they are away this week
end. With their young son, Willard
III, a student at Landon School,
they have gone to Sweet Briar Col
lege to visit their daughter jeanne,
who is a freshman. This is par
ents' week end" at the school.
Mrs. Pollin's visit this week with
Mrs. Vessels will be welcome for
more than one reason, as Col.
Vessels leaves today for duty as
executive officer at Camp Gordon,
just outside Augusta, Ga. Mrs.
Vessels will remain here till their
house in Arlington has been dis
posed of.
Col. Merton ]. Batchelder, q. s.
M. c., and Mrs. Batchelder are an
nouncing the. marriage of their
daughter, Mrs. Betty Batchelder
Norford, to Maj. Robert Winslow
Glickert, u S. NJ c. The wedding
took place October % at the Naval
Receiving Station Chapel in Ana
costa in the presence Of only the
immediate families.
The bride is. the widow of Capt.
Archie Baynes Norford, U. S. M. G.
Maj. Glickert is graduate of Pres.
byterian College in Clinton, s. c.,
and now is on duty at Marine Corps
Headquarters in Washington. After
short wedding trip, they will live
in Arlington.
Celebrate Anniversary
Col. and Mrs. v. j. OKelliher, who
are celebrating their 35th wedding
anniversary, were honor guests at
a gay little party which their som
in-law and daughter, the Shull L.
Irwins, gave last evening.
The colonel, who now is on the in
active list, was assistant director Of
selective service and drew up the
draft law for World War II. He has
won all sorts of medals, too, for his
service in both wars. Mrs. OKelli-
her has been active in the Puerto
Rican American Women's League
and the Dollology Club, is a former
president of both organizations and
has lectured great deal on dolls,
travel and other subjects.
Invited to celebrate with the
colonel and his wife yesterday were
Maj. Gen. and Mrs. John Hildring,
Maj. Gen. and Mrs. Lewis B. Her
shey. Maj. Gen. and Mrs. John
Dalquist, Maj. Gen. and Mrs. Miller
White, Maj Gen. and Mrs. Lorenzo
Gasser, Capt. and Mrs. John Zahm,
Col. and Mrs. Neil Kimble, Col. and
Mrs. Robert Jackson, Col. Ebert M.
Barron and the Commercial Secre-
tary of the Netherlands Embassy
and Nine. Kokxhoorn.
Civilian guests included Mr.. and
Mrs. Charles K. Claunch, Mr.. and
Mrs. Thomas Blake, Mr.. and Mrs.
william Leahy, Mr.. and Mrs. Frank
w. Kuehl. Mr.. and Mrs. John
Waters, Mr.. and Mrs. Frederick
Oeschner, DR.. and Mrs. William
Claudy, Dr. and Mrs. Paul Wilmer,
DR.. and Mrs. George Reeves, Mr..
and Mrs. Frank Meenehan, MIR. and
Mrs. Victor Clunet, Mr.. and Mrs.
Ray Naylor, Mr.. and Mrs. Israel
Mendelson, Mr.. and Mrs. N. M.
Cohen, Mr.. and Mrs. John Silber-
man, Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Murray,
Mr.. and Mrs. Otis Dorian, Miss
Rosemary Wright, Countess Maryls
de Wilkowska, Miss Winifred Bur-
well, Miss Eleanor Baumgardner,
Mr.. Thomas Brahany, Mr.. Edward
Kemp and Mr.. Charles Clark.
Halloween Party
Col. and Mrs. John A. Andrews
had guests at the Halloween dinner
dance at Fort McNair Friday night.
Their group included Maj Gen. and
Mrs. William H. Arnold, Maj. Gen.
and Mrs. Charles Bolte, Col. and
Mrs. Sidney Negrotto, Col. and Mrs.
Kenneth Webber, Col. and Mrs.
Emil Leard, Col. and Mrs. William
Miller, Col. and Mrs. Paul Carroway,
Col. and Mrs. Lindsey and Col. and
Mrs. Richard Thomas.
Col. and Mrs. Herbert F. Frost
are entertaining Mrs. Humphrey
Bassett of Rye, N. Y, over the week
end and yesterday the three were
guests of Mr.. and Mrs. Howell l..
La Motto at the second hunt of the
season of the Potomac Hunt.
Epaline Summers