Evening star., 1950-06-01
Color Ceremony
TodayHigh|iehts
June Week Fete
Girl From Tennessee
To Present FIoe in
Traditional Event
By J. |. MichoeI
Sessiel S.or cerrsspenSen.

ANNAPOLIS. June IA 40
year-old Southern belle dressed in
white and carrying red roses will
give the Naval Academy's juno
Week its brightest touch today.
In traditional Color Girl cere-
monies. Miss Charlotte B. Ander-
son, a blue-eyed blond, will pre-
sent national and academy colors
to the prize-winning l4th Com
pany.
She was selected by Robert r.
Monroe. second midshipman in
academy history TO be honor man
of the graduating class and color
company commander.
The first was Wilfred Van Nest
Powelson, now of New York, who
was commissioned in the line
exactly 81 years ago tomorrow.
Mr. Powelson retired as a lieuten-
ant in 1902.
Both Miss Anderson, a sopho-
more at the University Of Tennes.
see. and Midshipman Monroe. ~,
who received nine additional
awards yesterday. are from Knox
vile. Tenn.
Parade Scheduled.
Presentation Of the colors viii
follow a parade on Worden Field
at $50 pm. on the eve OF grad
uation exercises at IL am. tomor-
row for the 691 members OF the
class Of 1850. It will be the 10th
graduation ceremony held at the
Nations naval school on the banks
Of the Severn River.
Secretary Of Defense johnson
will make his first address at
commencement exercises of a serv-
ice academy since he was named
to the post. He will be introduced
by Vice Admiral Harry w. Hill,
superintendent of the Naval Acad-
emy.
The Defense Secretary will dis
tribute diplomas. and Admiral
Forrest P. Sherman. chief of naval
operations. will administer oaths
to the graduates. Secretary of the
Navy Matthews will be among the
guests.
In addition. many OF the coun-
try's top military figures are ex-
pected to witness the exit of the
graduating class after cheers from
second classmen and plebes for
those about to leave US"
Five Ships Arrive.
Graduates will answer with
cheers for those we leave behind
us and then will prepare for a
summer cruise. The Battleship
Missouri and four destroyers ar.
rived here yesterday. 41s
OF those who will receive diplo.
mas. several will march UP the
aisle Of the academy chapel to
the strains Of a wedding march.
Others will be married In churches
here and at other places.
Marriages scheduled In academy
chapels include:
Tomorrow. John s. Sieg. Scran-
ton. Pa. and Jaequeline Erselle,
Alexandria.
Washingtonians to Wed.
Saturday. Frederick e. Beck. jr.,
Hillsdale, N. j., and Nancy Mae
Black, Annapolis William K.
Rockey and Anna Ferris. both of
Washington. and Robert Leroy
Davis. Fresno, Ohio. and Kathryn
Patricia Doyle, Annapolis.
Sunday. Thomas r. S. Ikeler,
Bloomsbury, Pa. and Sally Ann
Goodwin, Falls Church: Edwin z.
Speaker. Washington, and Donna
June Hendershot. Mounds, Okla,
and Donald X. Forbes, Washing
ton. and Rosamond Dale Marshall.
Annapolis.
Monday, Frederick D. Leder and
Janet Louise Johnson, both of
Arlington.
Yesterdays activities were high
lighted by the presentation of SO
prizes to so Midshipmen. The
awards were made in Dahlgren
Hall after a rainstorm made Wor-
den Field too wet for use and
forced cancellation of a parade.
3 ID. c. Men Get Awards.
Washington area men who re-
Iceived awards included Alexander
Graham Bell Grosyenor. Washing
ton. grandson Of the president OF
the National Geographic Society
and great-grandson of the inventor
OF the telephone: Alfred Morine
Pride. Arlington. and James Wash
ington Wills. jr.. La Plata.
Midshipman Grosvenor received
the Col. Robert M. Thompson
binoculars for achievements in
inter-class sailing.
Midshipman Pride received the
Crenshaw Memorial Crew Cup for
being the coxswain of the eight
oar crew winning the greatest
number Of races during the year.
Midshipman Wills received the
Walling -kimmel Memorial Tennis
Cup for contributing the most to
the success Of the tennis team.