^uubiu, air. uaviQ Kaymona bmveiy, a member of tne Assembly Club.MILITARY AIR MARKS 61ST ASSEMBLY BALL LAST NIGHTThe 61st annual Assembly Ball was marked with the same traditional dignity as in former years. This year in keeping with the time, the decorations and supper were kept on simple lines and a military air given with many of the escorts for the younger guests in uniform.As Bob Tula's orchestra struck up the music of Elgar’s “Pomp and Circumstance, the 1944 stately debutante figure, led by this year's debutante, Miss Theresa Trail Mathias, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles McCurdy Mathias, of Frederick, opened the ball. Other young ladies in the line of march were presented in Hagerstown during the past two years with the exception of Miss Eleanor Custis Broyles, of Baltimore and Miss Elizabeth Meek, Greenwich, Conn., including: the Misses Dorothy Byron Lane, Phyllis Negley Loose, Julia Keedy Boward, Pamela Statton andElizabeth Anne Prather. Their escorts, all from Camp Ritchie, were: Capt. Charles Daly, Capt. Walter J. Smuda, Lt. Kenneth Blaine, Lt. John Day, Lt. Arthur Wolf, Lt. Ralph Winkowski, Lt. Charles Doo-nan and Lt. Floyd Coats.Miss Mathias dressed in shell pink tulle with sequins trimming and wearing a corsage of pink roses, was presented to the receiving line by her cousin, Mr. David Raymond Snlvely.A student at Bryn Mawr College, she made her bow to Baltimore society at a Christmas ball there.In the line were John Vincent Jamison, Jr., president, with his sister. Mrs. William Thomas Hamilton, Jr., who wore a corsage of gardenias with her hlack velvet gown trimmed in sequins; Simms Arnott Jamieson and Mrs. Harvey(Continued on Page 3)Christmas PartvDinner Pnrtv