Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-08-07
Party Pace
In Services
Picking Up
Atkins Entertain
The Younger Set
By Betty Murphy

If you've been in town all
through the hot spell and you
aren't going anywhere this sum-
mer, you probably envy people
like Mrs. Spencer Akin who's leav-
ing tomorrow for Kill Devil Hill.
N. c.
With her daughter, Martha
(Mrs. Douglas G. McMillin), and
her granddaughter, Julie, she's
starting out very early in the
morning to drive to the. family
cottage that's right on the ocean.
It'll be a seven-hour drive but
she'll have plenty of time to rest
when she gets there, for she's stay
ing all the rest of the summer.
The General will fly down when
ever he can, in fact he's joining
his family the middle of this week
for few days vacation. His other
daughter, Eleanor MRS. Sheldon
Monroe), and granddaughter,
Eleanor, III, are driving down via
station wagon from Ithaca at the
same time, but they'll remain
there till time for school to re-
open. And Sheldon will join them
for the last week or so.
Gen. and Mrs. Akin entertained
few members Of the younger set
at the Army Navy Country Clubs
dinner dance last night. The party
was for their daughter, Martha,
who'd just returned from visiting
her late husbands parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. E. w. McMillin, on Lookout
Mountain, and for Mrs. Kenneth
Steward who'd been visiting there
too and came on here for a brief
visit before returning to her home
in Montgomery, Ala. Then too it
was for Gen. and Mrs. Atkins
nephew and niece, 1t. and Mrs.
Gerald Epstein, who are just back
from a tour in Japan spending
the weekend with them.
Here for Duty
The welcome mat is down for
Rear Admiral and Mrs. Frederick
E. Haeberle who have come to
Washington for station. The ADJ
miral was in command of the New
York Navy Yard and now is at
tached to the Bureau of Ships.
Capt. P. D. Gold, who's to be
the Admiral's assistant, is giving
reception in his honor next Fri
day at the Army and Navy Club.
The Haeberles have found a
house at 1922 Stephenson place.
which was occupied by Comdr.
and Mrs. Edward Spruance before
they went to Coronado. But it's
not conditioned, Mrs. Haeberle
says wistfully, like the one they
lived in in New York.
Tomorrow their sons wife, Mrs.
Frederick E. Haeberle, jr., will ar
rive by plane from Houston on
her way to visit her family in
Pennsylvania. She's bringing her
Ifive-month-old daughter, Cynthia.
so all the grandparents can have
an opportunity to see her for the
first time.
Entertaining Visitor
It'll be hail and farewell at the
luncheon Mrs. Raymond S. Nc
Lain is giving Thursday for Mrs.
Ernest Easterbrook, as the latter
is just stopping off here en- route
from Georgia to Canada.
Col. and Mrs. Easterbrook
and their three children (who
promptly got bronchitis as soon
as they arrived are visiting Col.
Easterbrook's brother in-law and
sister, 1t. Gen. and Mrs. j. Lawton
Collins.
Col. Easterbrook has been sta
toned at Fort Benning. His new
assignment is with the Canadian
Staff College in Kingston, On
tario.
The officers of the Plans and
Operations Division of the Gen.
eral Staff and their wives will
trip the light fantastic at a dance
next Friday at the Army Navy
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