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Evening star., 1951-03-04
Exclusively Yours
Syn1ingtons' Son Sings for the Veep;
Historic French Flags En- Route Here
By Betty BeoIe

The Vice President, Mrs. Bark
LEY, the Speaker and a number
of other Capital officials were
charmed the other evening like
birds right off the proverbial tree
by the singing voice and strummed
guitar Of young Jim Symington.
The Columbia Law School stu
dent, son of the National Re-
sources Board chairman, was in
Washington Thursday evening and
performed at two important par
ties that night to the delight Of
some of our better-known resi-
dents. Handsome like his father
Stuart and with the vocal talents
of his beautiful mother Eve. Jim
couldn't miss being an added at
traction.
He did his first stint in Speaker
Rayburn's apartment at the An
chorage, where the presiding Of
flcer of the House of Representa-
tives was entertaining in honor
of his Texas colleague, Repre-
sentative Wright Patman. The
stag dinner was dreamed up to
celebrate the 22d anniversary OF
Mr.. Patman's arrival as q fresh
man legislator. Around 10 o'clock
in the evening Jim and his father
said goodnight and went on up
Connecticut avenue to the Veep's
apartment at 2101, where Mrs.
Symington was already enjoying
the Barkley hospitality. and the
Barkley hospitality is something
to enjoy.
This party, that began as $50
hors d'oeuvres gathering and
ended with a small and delightful
supper. was in honor of Conductor
Leopold Stokowski and his wife,
the former Gloria Vanderbilt. The
latter. who has both sweetness OF
manner and pretty appearance,
looked lovely in dark taffeta
dress with black velvet ribbon
around her throat on which was
pinned a large diamond rose. The
mother of a 6-months-old boy,
Leopold Stanislav, whom they call
Stan, she is like any other proud
parent. Ask about her son and
she will whip out a picture that
apparently goes with her wherever
she goes.
The Weep was in IAN expansive
mood, still happy over the sur
prise he had received when the
President had presented him
earlier in the day with a gavel
made of White House wood. He
was showing it around. He even
allowed Jane to use his finest
china at supper-exquisite antique
blue and white Sevres with a beau
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DIETETICS.
Mrs. Warren DelGno
Robbins and Nurse
June Kramer OF Chill
dren's Hospital CON-
pare notes on Uitan1ins
10 vhtle preparing a
lunch at the Child
Welfare Clinic kitchen.
Mrs. Robbins is presi-
dent OF Child Welfare.
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Forces
'BundConcert
Benefit

Washington music lovers will
get their first opportunity to hear
all four famed service bands Sat-
urday evening at Constitution
Hall in their first joint concert.
The Combined Armed Forces
Band Concert, which will be given
as a benefit for the Soldiers,
Sailors, Marines and Airmen' S
Club. will have the additional at
traction of borrowing talent from
the American Bandmasters' Asso-
citation. which will hold its ma
tional convention here then. Out
standing bandmasters from this
association will appear as guest
conductors on the program.
The appearance of the four
service bands is an appropriate
salute to the Soldiers, Sailors,
Marines and Airmen's Club, which
for more than half a century has
been a haven for enlisted men
from all branches of the armed
forces. The club is operated and
maintained by wives of service
officers and proceeds from the
concert will go for extensive i'm
provements planned for the club.
The club, located at Eleventh
and L streets NV, now provides
comfortable lounges, a library,
television, a well-equipped recre-
alton room. cafeteria and snack
bar and sleeping accommodations.
Added facilities are now needed
due to the increase in size of the
armed forces-more than 1000
men now patronize the club each
month.
A distinguished audience is ex-
pected to be on hand for the
debut of the combined bands.
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To Be Wed

7 Senor Carlos R. Pardo and
Sonora de Pardo of Caracas
Venezuela, and Washington an
nounce the engagement of their
daughter Yolande to Mr.. John
Joseph Carroll, jr., son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Carroll of New York and
Fort Lauderdale, Fla. The we'd
ding will take place Saturday
afternoon, March "a, at 2 O'Clock
in the Church of the Holy Trinity
in Georgetown and will be fol-
lowed by reception in the home
of Senor and Sonora de Pardo.
Senorita Pardo is a member of
one of the oldest families in Ven
ezuela. Her maternal grand
father is the well-known writer,
Jose Ignacio Vargas Villa, and
her paternal great-great-grand-
father was Gen. Carlos Soblette
twice President of Venezuela. She
attended schools in New York and
Caracas and was graduated from
the University of Caracas.
Mr.. Carroll was graduated from
Georgetown and American Uni
versities and served in the Navy
during World War II.
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O|iphont-Egerton, Donnron-Eber|eWeddings
Harris Ewing Photos,

Brussels lace veil fell the full
length of the Cathedral train Of
her ivory satin gown. She was
attended by Mrs. Henry A. Niven,
jr.. of Attleboro, Mass. a cousin
of the groom's and the former
Miss Lucy Ann Stott of this city,
as matron of honor and her other
attendants were the Misses Mary
Elizabeth Anderson, Elizabeth
Trundle Welsh, Patricia Morrell,
Ann Brierley, Mary Elizabeth
Lynn and Mrs. Henry H. Stout.
Mr.. John Larner Oliphant was
best man for his brother and the
ushers were the Messrs. Parker
Oliphant, Henry Ashby Turner,
jr., Chauncey G. Parker III, Hugh
B. Ogburn, Henry A. Niven, jr..
and Nicholas w. Philip.
After a short wedding trip
South Mr.. and Mrs. Oliphant will
make their home here where Mr..
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Thrift Shop
7 ca toAid
Six Groups
ChiIdren's Charities
To Receive Proceeds
From Items Donated

Six children's charities will re-
ceive the proceeds from the
White Elephant" party of the
Thrift Shop to be held at $50
o'clock Thursday, March Is, at
the Sulgrave Club.
Each year the Thrift Shop dis
tributes thousands of dollars to
its member charities. This money
is raised by the sale of articles
donated to the shop.
One Of the features of the tea
March is will be the admission
charge Of one "white elephant"
or unwanted article, as well as a
ticket. The articles thus collected
will help to restock the shops
shelves. The Thrift Shop board
has announced that anything
from costume jewelry to clothes
comes under the heading of de-
sirable white elephants"
Mrs. Truman, Mrs. Woodrow
Wilson and Mrs. Alben Barkley
will head the list of dignitaries
who are scheduled to attend the
tea, which will be highlighted by
a Nettie Rosenstein fashion show.
The six charities to benefit from
the party are Children's Hospital.
Child Welfare Society. Children1
Country Home. st. Johns Or
phanage, Prenatal Clinic at CO.
lumbia Hospital and the Junior
League Project. the department Of
psychiatry at Children's Hospital.
At Children's Hospital there
are three separate charities that
directly benefit from Thrift Shop
activities: the hospital-where
thousands of little ones are helped
back to health in the wards and
clincs; the Child Welfare Society
its purpose is to keep the we'll
child we'll" Here children of low
income families can obtain the
very best pediatric supervision
and advice and the Junior League
of Washington project, the. De-
psrtment of Psychiatry, fills a
great need in child health III
Washington. Not only does it help
young patients with definite
problems. but under the super
vision of a pediatric psychiatrist
it helps train doctors throughout
the hospital to recognize and
treat early problems in child be-
havior before they become serious.
Of the other charities the
Children's Country Home cares
for convalescent children; sSt.
Johns Orphanage provides shelter
for homeless boys and girls and
the Columbia Hospital Prenatal
Clinic cares for the smallest ones.
Mrs. Lawrence Groner is the
president of the Thrift Shop
Board and Mrs. William A. Nor
gan is chairman for the White
Elephant Party. Her aides in
clude: Mrs. William North Stur-
devant, Mrs. j. William Fulbright.
Mrs. Frederick R. Solger, Mrs.
Barry Mohun, Mrs. Henry Miller.
Mrs. Henry A. Gardner, jr., and
Mrs. John F. Sweeney, ticket
chairman.
Tickets for the event must be
purchased in advance. No tickets
will be sold at the door. Mrs.
Sweeney can be contacted at
Ordway 1910.
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tiful blue and white tablecloth he
found in Portugal.
Eve Symington's expression as
she watched her son sing and play
was a delight to behold. Jim, who
has his own TV show in New York.
had no difficulty holding this small
audience for an hour though it
included famed musician Stokow-
ski. Among those who dropped by
to greet the latter and his wife
were the Secretary of the Air
Force and Mrs. Thomas Finletter,
Senator and Mrs. Brien Mcmahon,
the French Ambassador and Mime.
Bonnet, Philippine Ambassador
Mike Elizalde and the Clark Cliff
fords.
+ 4
When the President of France,
M. Vincent Auriol. sits down in
the great hall of Anderson House
the night of March 20 as the
guest of Secretary of State Dean
Acheson, he should see around him
some historic but brand-new
standards of French ships and
French regiments that date back
to the American War of Inde-
pendence. The beautiful, heavily
embroidered silk flags, each bear
ing the crest of it's ship or regi-
ment, were fabricated by the silk
makers of Lyons, France, and are
exact reproductions of the now
tattered and disintegrated flags
actually flown by the French at
the surrender of Yorktown. They
are due to arrive in this country
some time this month and it Is
expected that the French Am
bassador will present them to the
Society of the Cincinnati for which
they are intended some time be-
fore the dinner.
The flags are gift to the
Society of the Cincinnati, which
has it's headquarters in Anderson
House, from the Cincinnati of
France, which was formed after
the American society. Like the
American organization. which was
formed by officers serving with
Gen, Washington in the Revolu-
tionary War and is today made
up of their descendants, the
Erench Cipcironati of fodav arc
the descendants. Of Gems. Lafay-
|ette, Rochambeau, Admiral de
Grasse and other French officers
who helped us gain our independ-
ence. The current gentlemen
had the flags made and upon their
completion dedicated them in De-
cember in the American Embassy
in Paris. Since then they have
been hanging in the Louvre. There
are about 20 in number, each
measuring about 6 feet square.
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Of interest in Washington resi-
dental circles was the marriage
yesterday of Miss Martha Trundle
Egerton, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
Walter Eugene Egerton, to Mr..
Robert Chambers Oliphant, son
of Mr.. and Mrs. A. Chambers
Oliphant.
The Rev. DR.. Albert P. Shirley
officiated at the o'clock cere-
mony in the Mount Vernon Place
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Diplomat


The Netherlands Embassy will
lose another of its bachelors when
the Commercial Secretary. DR.. j.
Kaufman, marries Miss Mamie
Loete in the spring. DR.. Kauf-
mann, a native of Amsterdam. has
been at the Embassy here since
1945, and Miss Loete, also of AM
sterdam, came in 1914. She is sec
retary to the Netherlands Minis
ter, DR.. A. H. Philipse.
DR.. Kaufman was graduated
from the University of Amsterdam
and took his Phi. D. degree in eco
nomics from the University Of
Geneva.
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Methodist Church and was as
sisted by the Rev. DR.. George M.
Docherty of the New York Avenue
Presbyterian Church. A reception
followed for young friends of the
bride and groom, families and out
of town guests at the Egerton's
2100 Connecticut avenue apart
ment.
Mr. Egerton escorted his daugh-
ter whose exquisite heirloom
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Mrs. G. c. S. Corea have guests
with them over Sunday and last
evening entertained at dinner in
their honor. The visitors are
Prof. and Mrs. w. T. STAGE of
Princeton and Mr.. Jackman. for
mer member of the Canadian
Parliament, and Mrs. Jackman.
The STAGES and their hosts have
been friends for many years, the
former having lived in Ceylon be-
fore Prof. STAGE became a mem
ber of the faculty at Princeton
University, and Mrs. Corea and
Mrs. STAGE were schoolmateS in
Ceylon.
The Indian Ambassador, Nine.
Pandit, was the ranking guest at
dinner and others included the
Indonesian Ambassador and Nine.
Sastroamidjojo. the Burmese AM
bassador and Mrs. James Barring
ton, the Assistant Secretary of
State and Mrs. Dean Rusk, the
Counselor of the Canadian EN-
bassy and Mrs. George Ignatieff.
Mr.. and Mrs. Norman Littell and
Col. Jones-Davies.
The Austrian Minister and Mrs.
Ludwig Kleinwaechter will be
hosts at dinner Tuesday evening.
Irish Visitors
A warm welcome in Washing
ton awaits Mr.. Sean Nunan, for
mer Irish. Minister here, when he
comes next week with his Min
lister for External Affairs, Mr..
Sean Mcbride. The two gentle
men will arrive in Boston Sunday,
and the Minister of External At
fairs will speak before the Clover
Club that day and be entertained
later by the Governor of MaSsa-
chusetts, Mr.. Paul A. Dever. They
will come to Washington March
IL and the following day will be
entertained at luncheon at the
Capitol and dinner that evening
by the Irish Ambassador and Mrs.
John j. Hearne. They will be
guests at the embassy during their
Washington visit.
The United States Ambassador
to Ireland and Mrs. George A.
Garrett, who are here on leave,
will give a dinner party for the
visitors March IA. and earlier that
day the cabinet officer will be
honor guest of the National Press
Club at luncheon.
March Is the visitors will go to
Philadelphia for the 181st annual
dinner of the Friendly Sons Of
st. Patrick in the City of Brother
ly Love. They will be back here
on the 18th when the apostolic
delegate. the Most Rev. Amleto
Giovanni Cicognani will entertain
them at luncheon. The following
day they will go to New York for
several days before returning to
the Emerald Isle.
Diplomats Travelling /
The Norwegian Ambassador and
Mrs. Munthe de Morgenstierne
who are in Palm Beach will visit
In other Florida resorts before re-
turning to the embassy the end of
next week.
Also in the South are the Saudi
Arabian Ambassador, Sheikh Asad
Al-Faqih and his wife who now
are In Havana after visit in Flor
ida. They are expected back the
end of the week.
The New Zealand Ambassador
and Lady Berendsen are enjoying
a fortnight's rest in Washington
but will return to New York the
end of the week. The Ambassador
Is a member of the United Ma
tions Assembly which will hold
sessions again the last two weeks
In the month.
The Swedish Ambassador, Mr.
Erik Bohemian, will be back the
middle of the week from a ten
days trip home. Nine. Bohemian
remained in Washington during
his absence.
The Swiss Minister, Mr.. Charles
Bruggmann, also made a brief trip
to his homeland and will join
Mime. Bruggmann the end of the
week.
The Iraq Charge d'Affaires and
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Dinner for DrexeIs

Mr.. and Mrs. Louis r. Bru-
guiere entertained at dinner in
their New Hampshire avenue home
last evening for Mr.. and Mrs.
John r. Drexel III of New York.
The Drexels are weekend guests
of Mr.. and Mrs. Bruguiere.
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Miller Gives
Luncheon Portv

Miss Bertha S. Adkins, Repub-
lican national committeewoma
from Maryland, was guest of
honor at a luncheon given Thurs
day at the Congressional Club by
Mrs. Edward T. Miller. wife of
the Representative from Mary
land. Miss Adkins is also execu-
tive director of the Women's Di-
vision Of the Republican National
Committee.
Other guests were Mrs. ]. Caleb
Boggs, Mrs. Owen Brewster. Mrs.
Clarence j. Brown. Mrs. Charles
S. Dewey. Mrs. Ralph Harvey,
Mrs. Edward Martin, Mrs. j. Har-
ry McGregor. Mrs. Donald w.
Nicholson, Mrs. Daniel A. Reed
Mrs. Errett P. Scrivner. Mrs. Tom
Stevens. Mrs. John Taber, Mrs.
Harold Walker and Mrs. John j.
Williams.
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Congress Club
Hears Talk

By Ruth Dean

Local draft board officials have
the primary responsibility in the
matter of occupational defer
ments. Maj. Gen. Lewis B. Her.
shey, director of Selective Service.
told the Congressional Club yes
terday
I'VE have got problem in max
ing the community conscious that
theirs is the decision to make, :"
Gen. Hershey declared In answer
to a query.
Pointing out that agricultural
workers under 10 and over 26
years are already exempt from the
draft, Gen. Hershey said the deci-
sion on who can go and who can
not go" in the 1926 age bracket
lies with the local draft boards,
because "the Selective Service be-
lieves in community autonomy"
"The thing we fought in the
last war. was to keep our people
from all looking alike" he said.
"Our idea is to let each COM
munity run It's own affairs"
9 Deferrment of farm labor poses
a particularly tough problem. he
added, because the conditions of
deferrment vary with the types
of farming in different parts of
the country.
Gen. Hershey discussed the
problems facing Selective Service
in bringing the armed forces up to
full strength. Unless we start
taking veterans and men settled
with responsibilities and family
life," he asserted. I'VE find our
selves forced down to the young
ster who hasn't become important
to the welfare Of the country.
THE Nation has always been
saved by people in their late teens
and early twenties." ne said. "Our
youngsters are the most elastic
people we have. They can roll
with the punches and can sleep
on something harder than an In
nerspring mattress.
eve are face to face with meet
ing survival. at least with outside
forces. with the use of these
teens and 'twenties,' and we have
registered all We can get" he
declared.
Mrs. Lawrence H. Smith, pro-
gram director, int 3duced Gen.
Hershey. Mrs. James c. Davis,
president of the club, introduced
honor guests who included Mrs.
Hershey and six enlisted men from
the Boiling Field Air Base.
Each week the club will have
as its special guests. men of the
armed forces from surrounding
posts and hospitals.
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Sweet Briur
Tea TodQy

The Sweet Briar Alumnae Club
of Washington will entertain pros
pective students from the public
and private high schools of the
Metropolitan area at Lea at
$3.50 o'clock today at Mt. Vernon
Seminary.
Mrs. Bernice D. Lill, director of
admissions at Sweet Bliar, will
give an illustrated talk about the
campus, and two members of last
years graduating class, Miss Lola
Steele and Miss Margaret Murchi-
son, will be on hand to answer
questions.
Assisting at the tea table will be
Mrs. Stanley Hornbeck, Mrs.
Joseph Chappell, president of the
alumnae club; Mrs. James Heis-
kell. club secretary, and Mrs.
Ruth Wenzel, chairman of the
Alumnae Representatives Com
mittee and chairman of the tea.
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Speech Clinic Boil
Held Last Evenjn0

In the Carlton room of the
Carlton Hotel, the second annual
benefit ball of the National Speech
Clinic Foundation. Inc, and the
Junior Speech Clinic Foundation
was held last evening. Small ia
bles were placed around the dance
floor in night club style and dane
ing was continuous from 10 until
l o'clock.
Sponsors of the event were the
Peruvian Ambassador and Sonora
de Berkemeyer, the Secretary of
the Treasury and Mrs. Snyder,
Mrs. Tom c. Clark, Gen. and Mrs.
Clifton Bledsoe Gates. the French
Ambassador and Nine. Bonnet, the
Secretary of Agriculture and Mrs.
Brannan and Mrs. Harold H. Bur-
ton.
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Society and Clubs
Peruvian General Arrives for Visit;
Turkish and Venezuelan Parties

ture" before the National Geo.
graphic Society. The explorer,
writer and lecturer showed colored
motion pictures of Angel Falls,
highest in the world, which are
hidden in the interior of Ven-
ezuela. The lecture was given in
Constitution Hall and the party at
the Embassy Immediately followed.
Mrs. Smith, the former Mora
Archbold, is a gifted violinist, but
since her marriage has spent her
time travelling with Mr.. Smith to
unusual spots and out-of -the-way
places while he gathered material
for books and lectures. Their
home is in California but they
will be off to New York today and
go West later.
Guests at the small and in
formal Embassy party included
officials of the National Geo.
graphic Society and members Of
the Embassy staff.
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Party Given
For Visitors

DR.. and Mrs. Ivy A. Pelzman
entertained last evening in honor
of their house guests Mr.. and Mrs.
Edward Hunting and their SON,
Mr.. Tyler Hunting of Hunting
lane. East Hampton. Long Island,
The visitors who arrived Wednes-
day to stay for five or six days are
neighbors in East Hampton of the
Pelzmans who divide their time
between it and their charming
Georgetown house at 1902 Thirty
second street.
On their recent tour of Aus
tralia and South Africa the Pelz-
mans were entertained by Miss
Dorothy Stirling and her brother,
Mr.. Alfred Stirling, who is Aus
tralian High Commissioner in
Pretoria. The Strings We're very
popular here when Mr.. Stirling
was Minister of Australia. :
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AlunnnQe to Go
On Pilgrimage

The Washington Chapter Of the
Alumnae Association of the Col
lege of st. Catherine in st. Paul,
Mimi, will make a Holy Year
Pilgrimage tomorrow.
Members of the group will make
one of the four required visits
at their own parish. At 2 pm,
they will meet at St. Matthew's
Cathedral to make visits at the
cathedral, st. Aloysius' Church
and at st. Patrick's Church.
! After the visits, the group will
meet for tea at the home of Mrs.
John T. McDonough, 1925 Thir.
teenth street NV.
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By Katharine M. Brooks

The Peruvian Ambassador and
Sonora de Berckmeyer had guests
lunching informally with them
yesterday at their charming En-
bassy. Their guests were the
Prime Minister and Minister of
War of Peru. Gen. Zenon, and
Sonora de Noriega. The War
Minister arrived yesterday by
plane and was met by the Am
bassador and the members OF
the Embassy staff. The visitor
is here on an unofficial trip. hav-
ing come to join Sonora de Noriega
and their daughter. Senorita 1sa-
bel Noriega. The general will be
here while Sonora de Noriega is
undergoing medical treatment.
She and her daughter have an
apartment at Hotel 2400 where the
general joined them yesterday.
The Turkish Ambassador and
Nine. Erkin were hosts at dinner
last evening, their guests including
the Portuguese Ambassador and
Senhora de Esteves Fernandez,
Senator and Mrs. Ferguson, Sen
ator and Mrs. Karl E. Mundt,
Senator and Mrs. Harry P. Cain.
Representative and Mrs. Dewey
Short, the vice president of the
International Bank, Mr.. Robert
Livingston Garner. and his moth
er, Mrs. Robert v. Garner: former
United States Ambassador and
Mrs. william s. Culbertson, Rosa
Ponselle, Mr.. and Mrs. James
Reston and Miss Hazel Grant
Edgar.
Mr.. and Mrs. Smith Feted
Another party yesterday was
that of the Venezuelan Ambassa-
dor and Sonora de Araujo. who
entertained in honor Of Mr.. and
Mrs. Nicol Smith, who recently
completed a trip into the interior
of Venezuela. Mr.. and Mrs. Smith
were guests overnight of the
latter's mother. Mrs. Anne Arch
bold, in her home on Reservoir
road. The party at the Embassy
followed the illustrated lecture Of
Mr.. Smith on venezuelan Ven-
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PARTY POSTPONED

The Montgomery County-DiS-
trict Chapter of the City of Hope
has announced postponement of
it's first anniversary party to Tues
day at $3.50 pm. at the Jesup-
Blair Community Center.
Mrs. Dorothy Rumizen and Mrs.
Gerry Stern will be hostesses for
the evening. Mrs. Louise Herman
is chairman and Mrs. Edyce Ka-
bron, co-chairman of membership.
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.Sien7ons-Prentice
Enqoqen0ent

Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas Siemons
of Cheverly, Md. announce the
engagement of their daughter
Jean to Mr.. Kenneth w. Prentice,
son of Mr.. and Mrs. William w.
Prentice of Silver Spring. No date
has been set for the wedding.
Miss Siemons is a graduate of
the University of Maryland and
a member of Alpha XII Delta So
rority. Mr.. Prentice is attending
Maryland University Dental School
and is a member of Phi Delta
Theta Fraternity.