Evening star., 1952-11-28
Society News
Whit|0Ck wins Are
Presented at Home
Series Of Parties Make Thanksgiving
A AGoy, Busy Time for Debutontes

lat the Third Annual Debutante
Cotillion and THANKSGIVING Ball
which started at 10 o'clock in the
main ballroom of the Shoreham.
Other parties before the ball
included dinner given at
the Chevy Chase Club by
Mr.. and Mrs. Julian Ash
ton Devereux and Mrs. Cornelius
Vanderbilt Roe, all of Baltimore.
The RoeS' daughter, Miss Jane
Howard Roe, was one of the debu-
tantes at the late-evening cotil-
lion. Other guests we're friends of
the hosts from Baltimore.
Another pre-ball dinner hostess
was Mrs. Henry D. Flood. who en-
tertained at her home in honor
of her debutante cousin. Miss
Carol Lippincott Lewis of Annap-
oils. another of the young debs
feted at the cotillion. Miss Lewis,
a freshman at Hollins College.
Roanoke, Va, is the daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. c. Raymond Lewis.
The majority of the debutantes
at the Debutante Cotillion and
Thanksgiving Ball were from
Washington. but there were sew
eral from Baltimore and a sprin-
king from New York, Richmond
and Annapolis.
The ball was by way of group
presentation in Washington, par
ticularly for the out-of-town girls
who will not otherwise be pre-
sented here. However. each of
the debutantes at the ball either
has had or will have her own
individual debut party in addition
Washington Presentees
Washington debutantes present.
last evening, in addition to the
Whitlock twins, were Miss Joan
Carmichael, daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. James Carmichael; Miss
Louise Avril Clarke, daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. George Charles
Clarke; Miss Joyce Clifford, daugh-
ter of Mr.. and Mrs. Clark
McAdams Clifford; Miss Perry
Durant, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
Oliver Durant II; Miss Andrea
Macdonald, daughter of DR.. and
Mrs. Andrew Magruder MacDon-
aid, and Miss Diana Sandefer,
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Gilbert
Sandefer. These girls made their
debuts in June.
In the Washington group who
will make their debutS at Christ
mastime were Miss Caroline Lark
Curtis, daughter of DR.. and Mrs.
Howard Crosby Curtis; Miss Eliz-
abeth Dallam, daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. Kenelm Dallam; Miss
Alice Freer, daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. Robert E. Freer; Miss Faith
Hollowell, daughter of Rear Ad-
miral and Mrs. Ernest Becker;
Miss Jill Jamison, daughter of
Capt. and Mrs. John Wendell
Jamlson; Miss Barbara Mahon.
niece of Mr.. and Mrs. Allan
Cunningham; Miss Nancy Nc
Claskey, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
Charles L. McClaskey; Miss Helen
Ann Muir, daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. Brockett Muir.
Also in the Washington Christ
mas contingent, were Miss Mar
garet Osborn, daughter of Captain
and Mrs. Donald R. Osborn; Miss
Carlotta Prichard, daughter of
Mrs. Vernon Edwin Prichard: and
Miss Garnett Williams, daughter
of Mr.. and Mrs. Washington
Biscoe Williams.
Baltimore Bellies
From Baltimore, in addition to
the Misses Nagel, Clogg, Polk and
Roe, came Miss Elizabeth Sellers
Parran, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
Thomas Parran; Miss Tacy Ann
daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. Keyser Levering. jr.: Miss
Beurket. daughter of
Col. and Mrs. Raymond Thomas
Beurket; Miss Patience Gordon
Linker, daughter of MI. and Mrs
Felix A. Linker; Miss Margaret
Biscoe Gray, daughte. of Mr.. and
Mrs. Biscoe L. Gray; and Miss
Nancy Buchholz. daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. Frederick Buchholz.
There were two Richmond debs
in the group. Miss Mary Stoddard
daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. Horace Barnard and niece
Of Mr.. and Mrs. Benjamin Y. Mar
tin of Washington: and Miss Bar
bara Ann Pinnell, daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. c. w. Pinnell.
From New York came Miss
Diane Damon, daughter of DR..
and Mrs. Virgil Damon.
The debutantes stood in the re-
ceiving line from 10 to II o'clock.
Then they were escorted into the
ballroom by their escorts to the
tune of "a Pretty Girl is Like
4 Melody"