Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-07-15
BY EVELYN NJ. DENT

Brig. Gen. John R. Wood,
retiring director of Walter
Reed Army Medical Center,
and Mrs. Wood, will be guests
of honor Friday at a 6-to-8
O'Clock reception given in the
Officers Club on the post.
Hosts will be fellow officers
who have been closely asSo-
ciated with Gen. Wood during
his tour at Walter Reed.
Gen. and Mrs. Wood will
leave the end of next week for
Tuckahoe. N. Y, where they
will make their future home.
Gen. Wood will become vice
president of the Burroughs
Williams Co., U. S. A.. and will
serve as director of its medical
research. His office will be in
ScarSdale. N, Y, headquarter
OF the company in this country.
Miss Sandra WoOC, daugh-
ter of Gen. and Mrs. Wood will
take off next week for Panama
to visit Senorita Olguita Lii
mares, a claSSmate at VaSSar
College. The girls have fin
iShed their sophomore year
and Senorita LinareS spent a
brief time here before going
home to the ISthmus. Miss
Wood will not return until
early September in time to
prepare to return to VasSar.
Miss jeanne Wood. younger
daughter, will spend the month
of August with Miss Nancy
WytheS in the summer home
of her parents on Cape Cod.
Col. Mason Successor
Gen. Wood will be succeeded
at Walter Reed by Col. Rich
ard P. Mason, who has been
on duty in the Surgeon Cen
erals Office. He and Mrs. Ma
son are expected to share hon
ors with the Woods on Friday.
Numerous parties. mostly
small and informal, are being
given for the Woods before
they leave. Among the hosts
of the past week were Rear
Admiral and Mrs. Carl Moore
who gave a garden supper
party at their Chevy Chase
home. The Scientific Attache
of the British Embassy and
Mrs. H. John Hadow gave a
similar party in their home.
also in Chevy Chase. Other al
fresco parties for the Woods
were those given by Mr.. and
Mrs. George Collins. who were
hosts at a steak party IN their
garden on KirkSide drive, Mr..
and Mrs. Osborne Stabler. who
entertained at Sunnyside, their
place in Montgomery County,
and Mr.. and Mrs. j Aubrey
Powell. who were hosts in
their new home near Olney.
Rileys Here
Retired Marine Corps. Gen.
and Mrs. William E. Riley are
in their Georgetown home for
a short stay. Mrs. Riley came
back. to this country in May
from Ankara where Gen. Riley
is with the Central Intelligence
Agency, arriving in time to
see her daughter. Miss Kath-
crime Riley, graduate from
Marymount College at larry
town. N. Y. Gen. Riley will
return to Ankara the end of
next week but Mrs Riley will
stay on until the Georgetown
house is rented and she finds
a suitable apartment for
daug hter Katherine. Miss
Riley did her junior year of
college work at the Sorbonne
and previously had two years
of study in Geneva. She took
position with Group Hos
pitalization here before her
father came back for a visit
and plans to stay in Washing
ton through the winter.
Gen. and Mrs. Riley were
here in time for the arrival of
their grandson, William Ed
ward Riley III. whose parents
are Marine Corps Capt. and
Mrs. William Z. Riley. Capt.
Riley is stationed at the Ma
rine Base at Quantico. where
he has been for about a year.
Gen. and Mrs. Riley will be
the guests of honor at a small
and informal cocktail party
Wednesday which retired Gen.