WASHINGTON S O C I A L D I A R Y
AROUND TOWN
Carla Perlo and Richard Pilkinton
Ruth and LaSalle Leffall Jr.
Susie and Murdoch Matheson
RUTH BUCHANAN’S BIRTHDAY
Ruth Buchanan and Rusty Powell
Private Club PHOTOS BY KYLE SAMPERTON BY KEVIN CHAFFEE
Gene Quinn, Lynly Boor, Tom Quinn, and Charles Cudlip
THE EVENT Celebrating Ruth Buchanan’s 90th birthday — at a location which cannot be revealed due to “club rules.” THE SCENE Old Guard Washington turned out to honor one of the capital’s last grande dame society hostesses with cocktails, dinner (served on a very special porcelain service flown in from San Francisco by the birthday girl’s daughter, Diana “Dede” Wilsey) and lots of dancing, which just happens to the sprightly nonagenarian’s greatest joy — especially when there’s a stag line of “about 12 guys.” THE GUESTS Son Wiley T. Buchanan III and his wife Janis, daughter Bonnie Matheson and a ballroom full of various grandchildren, great-grandchildren and other Buchanan, Traina, Swanson, Ohrstrom, Matheson, Wheeler and Hilliard relations. Also spo ed: Lucky Roosevelt, Mary Weinmann, Eileen Roosevelt Aitken, Elinor Farquhar, John Damgard, Jan and Tazewell Shephard, Mary Ann Stoessel, Jan Evans, Robert and Sylvia Blake, Be y Burton and Rusty Powell.
Janis and Wiley Buchanan
John Traina, Leith Mclean, and Michael Sullivan
The guest of honor’s great grandchildren
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Linda and Rick Stifel with Lilla Ohrstrom
John Hoskinson and Louise Williams
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