Evening star., 1948-05-30
Many Parties
In Services
This Spring
Halls Are Here
| From Hawaii
By Betty Miiken

One OF tho pleasures that service
folk enjoy, even more than their
civilian friends who don't move
about a. much, Is renewing &C
quaintance from time to time a.
they transfer from one station to
another. In fact It's almost impos-
sible for officers in the higher
brackets, those who have served for
q number Of years. not to find many
old friends at each new post.
Just now Vice Admiral and Mrs.
John Leslie Hall, jr., are having
pleasant reunion with their friends
in both service and civilian circles.
They arrived recently from Pearl
Harbor, where the admiral was in
command Of the Hawaiian Sea
Frontier and the 14th Naval Dis
trict, and are ensconced in the
George Mason Hotel in Alexandria.
That's . convenient spot for the
former Beall Daingerfield Of Alex
andria and her husband to see their
friends after an absence Of eight
years. Following visit there,
they'll 60 to Williamsburg. Admiral
Halls native town, where he re-
ceived a degree from William and
Mary College, then to Richmond
and Hot Springs, and finally to
Norfolk, where the admiral will be
in command OF the Armed Forces
Staff College.
Among the festivities for the ad-
miral and his wife during their
stay there will be the cocktail party
Capt. and Mrs. Robert M. Hinckley
will give Tuesday at their house on
Garfield street. Guests will be old
friends of the Halls and mutual
friends of theirs and the hosts.
Capt. and Mrs. Hinckley are back
from Chicago, where they went for
the wedding last Saturday of the
latters nephew, 1t. Lawrence Nc
Ceney Jones, jr.. U. S. A., and Miss
Janis Owens. 1t. Jones Is the son
of Col. Jones, who has been head OF
the Athletics Department at the
United States Military Academy and
, who will be retired shortly. In fact,
Col. and Mrs. Jones will come here
| to live the middle of June, and al
, ready are building a house on Aber-
foil street.
Mrs. Herman Feldman will enter
, tain at luncheon Thursday at the
; Army and Navy Club, Col. and Mrs.
Floyd v. Kilgore will have cocktail
party Saturday in the Officers Club
at Fort McNair and Col. and Mrs.
!, Thomas G.. McCulloch are inviting
friends for cocktails at the same
club Thursday, June II.
Col. and Mrs. Ira K. Evans had
, few friends for cocktails yesterday
, at their home on Klingle road, Col.
and Mrs. Harry Van Wyk had SIM
, liar gathering in Westgate and 1t.
. Col. and Mrs. Charles H. Bramlitt
, were hosts Wednesday in Parkfair-
. fax, entertaining at cocktails for DR..
| and Mrs. j. J. LoutZenheiser and
their daughter, Miss Sue Loutzen-
Iheiser, who are en- route from San
Francisco to Quebec.
Mai. Gen. and Mrs. Thomas B.
Larkin are looking forward to the
. arrival of their younger son. 1t.
Harrison Larkin, U. S. A. F. from
San Francisco, where he stopped to
visit his brother and sister-in-law,
1t. Thomas B. Larkin, jr., U. s. NJ,
and Mrs. Larkin, en- route from 27
months duty in Japan.
Maj. Gen. and Mrs. Robert M.
Littlejohn have left for Glaston-
bury, Conn, where they will reside
during the summer.
Col. and Mrs. Michael Zwicker
are leaving today for Houston, Tex,
where the former will serve as pro-
fessor of military science and tactics
at the University Of Houston.