Evening star., 1951-12-23

olSplayeo In lie sized models
throughout the North and South
Posts. Christmas trees and lights
outline the way for the visit of
Santa Claus tomorrow at 8, when
the Christmas party for the chill
dren living on the posts will get
under way.
More than 600 children are ex-
pected to greet the North Pole
visitor who will arrive in the
modern manner-by heliocopter
and thence conveyed by sleigh
drawn by six white horses to the
North Gymnasium. There Chap
lains Homiston and Emmet Walsh
will assist in delivering the gifts
to each child.
Also assisting will be 1t. Harriet
Blickman, and the WAC Detach-
ment together with members of
the 3rd Infantry Regiment, and
volunteers Of the Headquarters
Command. At 10 o'clock Protest.
ant candlelight services will be
held at the Fort Myer Chapel fol-
lowed by Catholic services at mid
night.
The Commanding General of
the Military District of Washing
ton, Maj. Gen. Thomas w. Her
rem, and Mrs. Herren will go to
West Point on Thursday to spend
q few days with their son, Cadet
Herren. jr.. who is a plebe. They
will return to town in time for
the New Year.
Gen. and Mrs. Herren have in
vitations out for their annual New
Years day reception and open
house at their quarters from II 30
to l o'clock.
Mrs. Herren is assisting with the
children's party tomorrow as well
as the teen-age dance which the
Fort Myer Women's Club is spon-
soring at Hop Hall on Wednesday,
with Mrs. Floyd L. Parks. wife of
Maj. Gen. Parks, as chairman.
The Adjutant General, Maj.
Gen. William E Bergin, and Mrs.
Bergin leave today to spend the
holiday with Mr.. and Mrs. Walter
Schoeni at Penn Valley, Pa.
Thursday Porty
The Assistant Chief Of staff,
G-1, 1t. Gen. Anthony C. Nc
Auliffe and Mrs. McAuliffe, have
invitations out for Thursday for a
$50 to $3.50 o'clock party III their
quarters at Fort Lesley J. McNair.
This is one in a series of such
events that the McAuliffe's will
give.
The Chief Chemical Officer, Maj.
Gen. =. F. Bullene, and Mrs. Bull
lene with their son, Roger, are
leaving tomorrow for Hartford
County, Md, where Gen. Bullene
and Roger will go duck shooting.
Gen. and Mrs. Bullene plan TO be
at the Army Chemical Center,
Edgewood, Md, for the New Year
festivities and reception.
The Chief of Engineers, 1t. Gen.
Lewis A. Pick, and Mrs. Pick eft
yesterday for Williamsburg Inn
where they will stay over the holi-
days and join in the traditional
festivities for which the Inn is
famous. This is the second Christ
mas they will spend without their
son. 1t. Pick. jr., who is still on
duty in Korea.
The Commandant Of the In
dustrial College of the Armed
Forces, Maj, Gen. A. w. Vana-
man, and Mrs. Vanaman have
their on-in-law and daughter,
Mr.. and Mrs. James Newell O'Gor-
man of New York with them
for a week. The visitors arrived
yesterday. Mr.. O'Gorman is an
instructor at Columbia University
and Mrs. O'Gorman is on the staff
of Time magazine.
Their son, Capt. Vanaman, jr.,
will not arrive in time for the
holidays. He is returning after II
months with the 5th Air Force in
Korea. and will join his wife at
the home Of her parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. C. A. Kitchen, at Sacra-
mento, Calf.
Brig. Gen. and Mrs, Fay B.
Prickett left yesterday for West
Point to visit with their sons-in-
law and daughters-Col. and Mrs.
Frank Miller, 1t. Col. and Mrs
Francis Roberts and Maj. and
Mrs. Lee Cage, over the holidays. /
The officers are all instructors at
the Military Academy. Gen. and
Mrs. Prickett will return to town
on Thursday.
Maj. Gen. and Mrs. Miles Reber
have Mrs. Reber's daughter, Miss
Helen H. Hawfield. at home with
them for 10 days. Miss Hawfleld
arrived on Wednesday from the
University Of North Carolina,
where she Is a student.
Mai. Gen. and Mrs. Thomas j.
Hanley, jr., expect their sons. 1t.
Col. Hanley, III, and the Rev. Dex-
ter Hanley, both from Baltimore,
for dinner tomorrow evening and
to spend the holiday with them
On Holiday Visit
The Commanding Officer, Ma
tional Naval Medical Center, Rear
Admiral w. j. C. Agnew. and Mrs.
Agnew are leaving today to spend
the holidays with Mrs. Agnew's
cousins, Mr.. and Mrs. Charles
Hughes, at Tidewater, Va.
Capt. and Mrs. Francis G. Ulen
have Mrs. Ulen's brother-in-law
and sister. Capt. and Mrs. Haroldl
j. Cokely, and their daughter.
Violet Jane, from st. Adams Hos
pital, Long Island, NJ Y. as their
house guests for the holidays. The
visitors arrived late yesterday.
On Tuesday the Ulens will give
their annual Christmas dinner and
among the guests will be the Mexi-
can Ambassador and Sonora de la