Evening star., 1949-08-14
Navy Set to Entertain
New Hospital Head
Reception to Be Given Friday;
Other Parties in Service Set
By Betty Murphy

Nichol joined his family at Barn
stable, Mass, on Thursday. They'll
have a nice long holiday together
before he reports for duty as chief
of surgery at the Army Navy Gen.
eral Hospital in Hot Springs. Ark.
on September 10.
Meanwhile Col. and Mrs. Shep-
peck and their family of two sons
and two daughters are getting set
tiled in the Nichols quarters at the
Medical Center.
Col. Sheppeck was stationed
here once before, serving as assist
ant chief. neuropsychiatric service
at Walter Reed Hospital in 1941.
For three years after that he COM
manded the 28th General Hospital
in Japan and last year attended
Northwestern University, receiving
his master of science degree. While
he was in school, Mrs. Sheppeck
and the children lived with her
mother, Mrs. Bertha Douglas, in
Fulton, Mo.
Brig. Gen. and Mrs. John Acker-
mans arrival from London during
the week caused furry of parties
in their honor, among them the
cocktail party given by Maj. Gen.
and Mrs. William Mckee, with
whom they were staying at Boiling
Field. and the dinner given by
Mai. Gen. and Mrs. Charles Pearre
Cabell.
The McKees' other guests in
cluded 1t. Gen. and Mrs. Idwal
Edwards, 1t. Gen. and Mrs. E. w.
Rawlings, 1t. Gen. and Mrs. How
ard A. Craig, Maj. Gen. and Mrs.
F. H. Smith. Maj. Gen. and Mrs.
Frank F.. Everest, Col. and Mrs.
Sidney D. Grubbs. Col. and Mrs.
S. F.. Gifin and Col. and Mrs.
L. K. Tarrant. The McKees left
yesterday for Saltville, Va. to
spend a week with his family.
Dinner guests of Gen. and Mrs.
Cabell were Gen. and Mrs. Acker-
man, Mrs. Edwards (the general
had a business appointment out OF
town., Maj. Gen. and Mrs. S. LIE
Roy Irwin. Maj. Gen. and Mrs.
Samuel Anderson. Maj. Gen. and
Mrs. Richard Lindsey, Brig. Gen.
and Mrs. Walter Agee, Brig. Gen.
and Mrs. Ernest Moore, Col.
and Mrs. Donald Dunford, Col.
and Mrs. Donald Zimmerman, Col.
Herschel Williams and Col. VIII
fred Hall.
Returning From Coost
Flying in from the West Coast
tomorrow will be Mrs. Charles F.
Thompson, who has been visiting
her sister, Mrs. Frederick B. CAR
ter, in Pasadena since the middle
of May. Mrs. Carter was the
guest of Gen. and Mrs. Thomp-
son here in the spring, and when
she left to return to California
Mrs. Thompson went along.
Rear Admiral and Mrs. Joel T.
Boone have a guest for a week
or so, Mrs. Boone's sister, Mrs.
Marjorie Hood of Pottsville, Pa.
Going to Turkey
Capt. and Mrs. Schuyler N.
Pyne and their two daughters.
Sally and Ellen, will be Turkey
bound by the middle of October.
They've booked passage aboard
an Egyptian liner sailing Octo-
Der 13, and Capt. Pyne is to be
chief of staff of the United States
Naval Mission in Ankara.
At the moment, however, they
are looking forward to leaving
on August 26 and
spending several weeks with Capt.
oyne's father and mother, Rear
Admiral and Mrs. Richard Pyne,
n Cazenovia, N. Y. Young Rich
ard Pyne, who'll remain In the
States for his senior year of school
1t South Kent. Conn, next winter.
will 60 along with the family to
but not to Portland.
oreg.. in September when his
mother and sisters leave for q
,isit with Mrs. Pyne's mother,
Ars. Charles H. Martin.