Maud Babcock

Gates was impressed by Babcock's work as a summer course instructor in physical culture and convinced her to move to Salt Lake City.

[5] In addition to her professional interests in drama and elocution, she also favored women's suffrage and opposed corsets.

[2] She served as president of the National Association of Teachers of Speech, and was a trustee for the Utah State School for Deaf and Blind for 20 years.

[2] She joined LDS Church shortly after she moved to Utah and served for several years on the general board of the Young Women's Mutual Improvement Association.

[1] The information in the article is taken from two obituaries clipped intact but without dates from two newspapers, one the Salt Lake Tribune and the other, apparently, the Deseret News