Montgomery County sentinel., 1958-12-18
Army M/Sgt. BrOlUn's
SerVicenen
We Know

other season, this recruiter will
be bundling up his office belong
ings for an expected trip across
the street from the Court House
into new proposed quarters on
the second floor of ITO Commerce
la. Our present recruiting space
is needed to house county facili-
ties. The County Manager has
been indeed helpful in allowing
the Army and Marine Corps use
of room 100 since 1854.
Home in time for Christmas
will be many local Servicefolks.
One of the first scheduled to ar
rive on the home front this week
end will be Leonard Smallwood,
son of Mr.. and Mrs. Stanley
Smallwood of Brookeville. Lennie
is leaving behind Army basic
training at Fort Jackson, S. c.,
blanketed in 10 inches of snow.
Home, too, will be WAC Recruit
Leona Jenkins of Stonestreet ave.,
Rockville. Leona joined the WACs
in mid-November and has been
training at Fort Mcclellan, Ala.
Ronald Gibson of Poolesville, is
another Army regular due home
in time to trim the conventional
tree. Finishing basic training at
Ft. Jackson, he is now scheduled
for Armor duty in the Far East,
his choice of assignment when he
Joined the U. S. Army at Rock
vile last August.
Tommy Maddox, son of Mont
gomery County Police Sergeant
and Mrs. Eugene Brown, 1913
Crawford dr., Rockville, won't
have too far to travel. He is en-
rolled in the map compiling
course at the Army Engineer
School, Fort Belvoir. Two of
Toms former classmates at Rich
ard Montgomery High School,
George Tough and Howard Stark
loft, will be home in time to en-
joy MONS holiday dinner. Tough
is attending microwave-electron-
les schooling at Fort Monmouth,
N. j., where it is reported he is
academically, the third highest in
his class. Howard, member of
the Army Security Agency, is
studying cryptography at Fort
DevenS, Mass.
No matter where Christmas
Day may find our servicemen and
women as they guard the safety
of their homeland and help main
tain world peace in far off cor
ners of the globe, they will cele-
brate the solemly joyous Christ.
maStide in the traditional Amer
ican manner. In chapels all over
the world they spiritually join
others of their faith in worship,
sing the old hymns, hear anew
the message of Peace that the
holiday season always brings to
the world. And in more festive
mood they give and receive gifts,
attend parties, sing carols, and
play Santa Clause to the young
sters in age-old fashion.
Wherever our service people
are, we wish them and their
families, joyful holiday and a
New Year enriched with Gods
blessings and personal faith.
A Christmas wedding will take
place for Army Pvt. Ed Norment,
6005 Crawford dr., Rockville, and
his bride to be, Miss Margaret
Moore, 500 Denham I'd. Ed will
be home for couple of weeks
during the holidays enroute to
Army Security Agency schooling
at Ft. Devens, Mass. Wedding
bells will start their traditional
ringing on the evening of Decem-
ber 26 at the Rockville Methodist
Church. The happy couple gradu-
ated together last June from
Richard Montgomery High School
Earlier this month, Joe
Richardson, a former drum ma
ior and senior at RMIIS, joined
the U. S. Army for airborne
training. David E. Rucker of
Summerfield rd., Chevy Chase,
made it a twosome by signing
up for the paratroopers, too =.
Two RMHS graduates recently
met while stationed in Europe
with the Army Regulars. The
two were Specialist 4th John Moh-
Ter, 102 Adclair rd., Rockville,
and George Wahlstrom, Thayer
ave, Silver Spring. They met
at Heilbronn, Germany, where
Mohler is stationed with an Engi-
neer unit. Wahlstrom is with
the 33rd Field Hospital near
Paris Army Pvt. Dick Nc
Bryde, 1010O Falls rd., Rockville,
former graduate of the Capt.
tol Page High School in the Dis.
trict, recently completed basic
training and is now scheduled
for Army Helicopter schooling
Marine Corps 2nd 1t. David
X. Renwick, of 1101 Lewis ave.
Rockville, recently entered hell
copter flight training at Ellyson
Field, the Nays only rotary
wing training school From the
Great Lakes Naval Training Cen
ter we learn that three County