Evening star., 1950-08-20
Service Set
Activities
Are Varied
Vocation Visitors
And Late Summer
Trips of Interest
By Evelyn M. Dent

The Assistant Surgeon General
of the Navy and Chief Of the
Navy Dental Corps. Admiral Spry
o. Clayton. and Mrs. Claytor will
be among the guests on Tuesday
at a reception co-hosted by
Comdr. and Mrs. William D. King
and DR.. and Mrs. John c. Swear
ingen at the Medical Center Of
ficers Club.
Admiral and Mrs. Clements
Rault and Rear Admiral and Mrs.
Alfred w. Chandler also have
accepted. Others in this 6 to 8
o'clock gathering of more than
one hundred and fifty members
of the United States Dental Corps
and residential society will be
Capt. and Mrs. Louis D. Mitchell,
jr., Capt. and Mrs. A. H. Grune-
valid and Capt. and Mrs. Robert
P. Irons.
Mrs. Spencer Ball Akin, wife
of the Chief Signal Officer, Maj.
Gen. Akin, left yesterday for their
summer home at Kill Devil Hill,
Nags Head. N. c. Mrs. Akin came
to town on Thursday for fly
ing visit and will not return again
until after Labor Day. Gen. Akin
will join the family for week ends
whenever duty permits.
Mrs. Kirk B. Lawton, wife of
Maj. Gen. Lawton, Deputy Chief
Signal Officer, is spending August
and September at the Forrest
Hills Hotel, Franconia, N. H. She
will be at home after October /.
Arrive in CapitoI
Brig. Gen. and Mrs. Wesley T.
Guest welcomed their daughter,
Miss Sally Ann Guest. home from
Virginia this week end. Miss Guest
will leave for Fairfax Hall,
Waynesboro. Va, come Septem-
ber.
Capt. and Mrs. Richard F. J..
johnson, jr., have as their house.
guests Capt. and Mrs. William G.
Fisher of Annapolis. Capt.
Fisher reports to the National
War College for duty.
Col. Donald Hardy arrived In
town on Tuesday after three
year tour of duty in Stockholm,
Sweden, where he was air attache
at the United States Embassy.
Mrs. Hardy and their children,
Donald, jr.. and Helene, accom-
panied him. The family is at the
moment domiciled in the home Of
close friends on Woodland drive
where they will stay until October
!.
Mr.. and Mrs. Louis H. Palmer Of
Philadelphia. Pa, parents of Mrs.
Hardy, returned to their home |
yesterday. They were here tQl
greet the travellers and to see
their grandchildren for the first
time in three years
1t. Col. and Mrs. william Starr
have arrived here from Sycamore,
Ill. and are making their home
temporarily at the Francis Scott
Key. Col. Starr has been as
signed here in the Office of the
Signal Corps.
Luncheon Given
Col. and Mrs. William L. Bayer
have as their house guest Mrs.
David Gillie Of New York, who
arrived Monday to spend two
weeks with her daughter and SON.
in-law. Mrs. Bayer gave a lunch
con on Thursday at Normandy
Farms in honor of her mother.
Among the guests we're Mrs. Will
liam Rumbough, wife of Maj. Gen.
Rumbough; Mrs. Francis Anken-
brandt, wife Of Gen. Anken-
brandt; Mrs. Raymond c. Maude,
wife of Gen. Maude; Mrs. William
Pence and Mrs. William Pence,
jr., Mrs. Charles Stodter, Mrs.
William P. Corderman, who with
Col. Corderman recently returned
from Anchorage. Alaska: Mrs.
Donald Hardy, Mrs. Richard F. v.
johnson, jr., Mrs. Helen Atkins,
Mrs. Paul Gripper, Mrs. George
Bicher, Mrs. Louis Palmer Of
Philadelphia, Mrs. Samuel Brown
ing who arrived that morning
from the Preside, and Miss Cath
erin Schaefer of New York City,
who is Mrs. Bayer's aunt and also
q house guest.
Mrs. A. N. Niemi, wife of Col.
Niemi of the Office of the Signal
Corps. gave a small luncheon
Wednesday at the officers Club,
Fort McNair, in honor of Mrs.
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