Evening star., 1950-01-01
Service Set
Engagements
Feature News
Many Fetes Today
Celebrate Start
OF the New Year
By Betty Murphy

Two engagements are being re-
vealed today which will be of more
than usual interest in Army, Navy
and Air Force circles. Col. and
Mrs. David Morris Dunno Of Fort
Belvoir are making known the
engagement Of their daughter
Joan McKie to 1t. Douglas Spoor
Weart, United States Army Air
Force, son of the Commanding
General of Fort Belvoir and Mrs.
Douglas L. Weart. And Mr.. and
Mrs. Edwin Raymond Kinnear
are announcing their daughter
Catharine Peck's engagement to
Ensign Harry De Pue Train II.
son Of Rear Admiral Harold Cecil
Train, U. s. NJ. retired, and Mrs.
Train Of Annapolis.
Miss Kinnear, who is in her
sophomore year at Sweet Briar
College, is the granddaughter Of
the late 1t. Col. Lewis Clark
Lucas, U. S. M. c., and the late
Mrs. Lucas Of Washington. En-
sign Train was graduated in June
from the United States Naval
Academy and is stationed aboard
the destroyer, U. S. s. H. j.
Ellison. Their wedding will take
place in early July.
A summer wedding also is plan
ned by Miss Dunno and 1t. Weart
who have chosen the month Of
August. The bride-elect, who for
merly attended the University Of
California at Los Angeles, will be
graduated next June from the
University of Maryland where she
is member of Delta Delta Delta
Sorority and president of the
Maryland chapter.
1t. Weart was graduated from
the United States Military Acad-
emy and commissioned in the Air
Force in June. and is stationed at
Randolph Field in Texas.
Parties Today
Other party hosts today will be
Gen. and Mrs. Clifton B. Gates,
who will entertain at their an
nual reception this morning at
II o'clock, and Maj. Gen. and
Mrs. Charles Gardiner Helmick,
Rear Admiral and Mrs. George
w. Calver and Capt. and Mrs.
John T.. Dingwell, who will serve
their guests eggnog late this after
noon. The post commanders re-
ception will be given today. too,
at the Army Medical Center.
Capt. and Mrs. Philip ]. Nc
Namara will entertain at the sec
ond In a series Of parties on
Wednesday and Brig. Gen. and
Mrs. William Franklin Campbell
will be hosts at cocktails Friday
in honor Of their son-in-law and
daughter, Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph
Malcolm Morris. who are home on
Is days leave from Tokyo. Mr..
Morris is manager Of the Imperial
Hotel In Tokyo where he and the
former Frances Campbell were
married in June. ~. With them
on their first visit to the States
since their marriage is their g.
month-old son, Joseph Malcolm II.
Col. and Mrs. Arthur E. Nickel
sen entertained about so friends
at a cocktail-buffet Friday at their
home in Arlington.
Miss Martha Giles Akin, sister
Of Maj. Gen. Spencer B. Akin. left
Friday to return to her home in
Greenville, Miss. after spending
a week with Gen. and Mrs. Akin.
Ensign and Mrs. Valentine H.
Schaeffer. jr., have gone back to
Pensacola following a visit with
both their families. Rear Admiral
and Mrs. Schaeffer and Capt. and
Mrs. John B. Pearson, jr. Climax
ing the whirl Of parties they at
tended while here was the buffet
supper Miss Suzanne johnson,
daughter Of Mrs. Richard H.
Phillips, gave the night Of the
midshipman and cadet ball at
the Army Navy Country Club. The
40 young people included several
Of the seasons debutantes and
those who were in the wedding
party when Beverly and Val were
married in June.