Evening star., 1948-12-19

The debutante whirl for the
Christmas season got underway last
evening when two young girls were
presented by their parents.
Petite and blond Suzanne Walsh
was introduced by her father and
mother. Maj. Gen. and Mrs. Robert
Walsh at a tea given at the home of
the debutante's grandparents, Mr..
and Mrs Corcoran Thorn. Another
blond-haired bud, Frances Gore
Haynes, bowed at the Sulgrave Club
at a tea-followed by dancing
given by her parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
r. Eberhart Haynes.
Gen. and Mrs. Walsh and Suzanne
tust returned from over q year in
Germany, where Gen. Walsh was
an aide to Gen. Lucius Clay. The
preparations for the debutante's tea
were rather hurried and the bud
had no assistants.
She and her mother received the
guests, the former wearing a pale
pink silk gown with a full skirt and
short sleeves. She carried an old
fashioned bouquet of forget-me-nots
and lilies of the valley. Mrs. Walsh
wore light blue faille gown with a
full skirt and long sleeves and her
flowers were white orchids.
Mrs. Walsh, as Miss Caroline
Thorn, also was presented in Wash
ington. Her debut and marriage
both took place in the Thoms' for
mer home on I street.
Assisting Mrs. Walsh at the to Z
O'Clock party were Mrs. Irving
Loughlin, Mrs. David E. Finley,
Mrs. Robert Dunlap, Mrs. Conger
Pratt, Mrs. Lauris Norstad and Mrs.
Carl Spaatz.
Miss Haynes is the ninth genera
tion Of her family to live in Wash
tngton. Both her mother, the
former Miss Frances Larner Gore,
and her grandmother, Mrs. Albert
j. Gore, who before her marriage
was Miss Nelly Lyman Larner, made
their debuts here.
This years debutante's arm bou-
quet of white roses and heather was
tied with the same red ribbon which
tied the debut flowers of both her
mother and grandmother Miss
Haynes wore an of f-the-shoulder
white brocade taffeta gown with a
very full skirt. With 1t she had on
an heirloom necklace of three large
amethysts, surrounded by several
rows of pearls, and hanging from a
strand of pearls. Her mother wore
a sapphire blue crepe gown, trimmed
with taffeta, and white orchids, and
Mrs. Gore was in burgundy crepe,
trimmed with pink pearls.
Red anthurium, sent to the bud
by friends in Honolulu, decorated
the tea table and Mr.. and Mrs.
Haynes and their daughter received
the guests as Sidney and his orches-
ira played.
Young ladies assisting Miss
Haynes included the Misses Helen
and Annie Willard, Ruth Saul.
Betsie Bassett, Rebecca White,
Ethel Van Devanter, Monica Gall
lard, Agnes Dunn, Edmonia Kearny,
Florence Walker, Joan Churchill of
Rochester, N. Y. and Nancy Weld
Greef of Mawah, N. j.
Mrs. Haynes was assisted by Mrs.
Philip Larner Gore, Mrs. j. Marvin
Haynes, Mrs. Copley Amory, Mrs.
Gilbert Grosvenor, Mrs. G. Walter
Dunlop, Mrs. A. C. Oliphant, Mrs.
Alexander Wotherspoon, Mrs. Ed
ward Karrick Morris, Mrs. Charles
Elmore Cropley, Mrs. David St
Pierre Gaillard and Mrs. John
Price Wetherill III.
Also, Miss Cecil Lester Jones, Mrs
John Clifford Folger, Mrs. Charles
S. Baker, Mrs. Albert e. Bassett
Mrs. Detlow Marthinson, Mrs
Charles Gray Cooper, Mrs. Ernest
Greene, Mrs. Richard M. Cults, ano
three ladies who were assistants al
Mrs. Haynes debut-Mrs. William
B. Willard, Mrs. John F. Whitley
and Mrs. Douglas B. Smith.
Several parties have been ar
ranged for Miss Haynes, among
them the large buffet supper Mr.
and Mrs. william A. Sutherland
will give Sunday. December 26. Last
evening, Mr.. and Mrs. ]. Marvin
Haynes gave o dinner party at the
Chevy Chase Club for their niece