Luncheons

Rear Admiral Lewis S. Parks, right, attends the Navy Mission Conference Luncheon at Quarry Heights military base in Panama. Others are unidentified.

Rear Admiral Lewis S. Parks (center) is seated at a table with guests aboard his ship, the USS Wisconsin, while in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Betty Ellis is seated next to him. Others are unidentified.

Rear Admiral Lewis S. Parks (second from left) shakes hands with Rear Admiral Jorge Escobedo during a luncheon while in Valparaiso, Chile. Otto Neimann and Sophie Eastman are pictured to the right.

Rear Admiral Lewis S. Parks stands to give remarks at a luncheon held by Rear Admiral Jorge Escobedo Diaz of Chile. Rosemary Escobedo is seated next to him.

Rear Admiral Lewis S. Parks (standing, center) attends a luncheon held in his honor by the Mayor of Valparaiso, Chile. Captain de Corbete Otto Niemann acts as interpreter and translates for Parks, standing far left. Seated, from left to right, are Rear Admiral Jorge Escobedo of the Chilean Navy, and mayor of Valparaiso, Santiago Diaz Buzeta.

Rear Admiral Lewis S. Parks (far left) attends luncheon held in his honor by the mayor of Valparaiso, Chile. At head of table, Rear Admiral Lewis S. Parks; Mayor of Valparaiso, Santiago Diaz Buzeta; unknown translator; Captain Kleber Masterson, United States Navy, Commanding Officer of the USS Boston; Mayor of Vina del Mar, Huber Wasavino; Captain William B. Sieglaff, United States Navy, Commanding Officer USS Albany.

Rear Admiral Lewis S. Parks (left) toasts his glass with the Mayor of Valparaiso, Chile, Santiago Diaz Buzeta, who held a luncheon in Parks' honor.

Former President Harry S. Truman receives paintings at a Chamber of Commerce luncheon in the Laurel Club dining room at the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ Latter Day Saints Auditorium. From left to right: Gene Cable, former President Harry S. Truman, unidentified, Coburn Jones, and Jerry Surber.

Former President Harry S. Truman receives paintings at a Chamber of Commerce luncheon in the Laurel Club dining room at the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ Latter Day Saints Auditorium. From left to right: Gene Cable, former President Harry S. Truman, unidentified, Coburn Jones, and Jerry Surber.

A foreign exchange student, Takeko Watanabe of Japan, greets former President Harry S. Truman (left) at a luncheon honoring his 79th birthday at the Muehlebach Hotel in Kansas City, Missouri. Also present at the luncheon is former Secretary of the Treasury John Snyder (seated, third from the left, wearing glasses). Others in the background are unidentified.