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

Maud May Babcock