Reliable Source: Embassy social secretaries welcome Deesha Dyer to the club

The cocktail party at ornate Meridian House on Thursday was hardly the stuff of Skull and Bones, but make no mistake about it -- this was an initiation rite. With champagne.The social secretaries from embassies of countries from Kenya to Monaco had gathered to toast Deesha Dyer, the new White House social secretary, to their unofficial ranks. Clinton-era White House social secretary Ann Stock was there, and chatter was about the heave wave in Europe and the annual near-shuttering of Embassy Row ...