New-York tribune., 1920-02-08
Reception After Ceremony
in Chapel of St. Georges
Church; Will Spend
Honeymoon i'm California
Miss Ferris Is Engaged
Dance Is Given at the
Colony Club in Honor
of Miss Alice Goddard

~ 0Vo i oA n ASShuSs was AtoA hAVN yCS~
terday afternoon in the chapel Of St.
Georges Church, Stuyvesant Square, to
Richard F. Babcock. The ceremony
was performed by the rector of St.
Thomas's Church, the Rev. DR.. Ernest
NJ. Stires, assisted by the Rev. DR.. s..
p. Swezey, of the little church built in
100 at Shrewsbury, where the Thomp-
sons have a summer home. The chapel
was decorated with bay trees apd apple
blossoms. The bride, who was given
away by her father, wore a gown of
white satin, embroidered in net and
silver, and an embroidered net veil.
She carried an arm bouquet of white
orchids.
Miss Geraldine Thompson was her
sisters maid Of honor and the brides
maids were Miss Ellen G. McCarter,
Miss Hope Lincoln, Miss Lowrie Sage
and Miss Helen Lee They were all
dressed alike in white net over cloth
Of silver, wore white net hats trimmed
with flowers and carried apple bios
SONS.
Woodward Babcock wasahis brothers.
best man. The ushers were William
Payne Thompson, Cd, Livingston Par
sons, William T. Preston. Henry Rogers
Winthrop and j. Averell Clark.
The ceremony was followed by re-
ception at the home of Mr.. and Mrs.
Thompson
Mr.. and Mrs. Babcock WI spend their
honeymoon in California, and on their
return will live in Westbuly, Long ISL
and.
Miss Edith Watson Stokes, daughter
OF Mr.. and Mrs. Walter C. Stokes, be-
came the bride at o'clock yesterday
afternoon at the home of her parents,
xS East Fifty eighth Street, of John
Gordon Logan. Only relatives and
few intimate friends were present at
the ceremony, which was performed by
the Rev. DR.. A. Edwin Keigwin, of the
West End Presbyterian Church. The
bride, who was given away by her
father, had no attendants. She was in
q gown of white satin, with which she
wore veil of old point lace. Her only
ornament was string of pearls, gift
OF the bridegroom. Eugene A. Early
served as best man.
thS SQSStS were ana Mrs,
Walter Watson Stokes, Mr.. and Mrs.
John Hall Watson, Mr.. and Mrs. Allen
Gouverneur Wellman, Miss Edith Well
man, Roderick L. Welman, Mr.. and
Mrs. F. Ambrose Clark, Mrs. William
Constable. Mr.. and Mrs. William C.
Bowers, Joseph X. Choate, Mr.. and Mrs.
Charles L. Hoffman, DR.. and Mrs. Ran
som Hooker, DR.. John A. Harriss, Mrs.
waiter Rutherfurd, Mr.. and Mrs.
A. Fillmore Ferris, of West
Eighty-frst Street. announces the
engagement of his daughter, Miss
Oorothy Ferris. to DR.. Frederick
Loder Whiting, son of DR.. and Mrs
Frederick Whiting, of 19. West Forty-
seventh Street No date ehas been set
for the wedding.
Mrs. Frederick D. Dellenbaugh IT, Of
Boston. niece of Mrs. F. Norton
Goddard, of 273 Lexington Avenue,
this city, gave a dance last evening at
the Colony Club for the latter's
daughter, Miss Alice Winthron
Goddard. The guests numbered about
100 and included practically all the
debutantes of the season and their
men friends. They came from a dozen
Or more dinners given earlier in the
evening. The hostesses included Mrs.
Robert R. Livingston, who entertained
for Miss Betsy Flagg, debutante, at
her house, II Washington Square
North. the guests numbering sixteen:
Mrs. r. Burnham Moffat; Mrs. Beverly
Chew Duer, for her daughter, Miss
Sophie B. Dyer, Mrs. A. Fillmore
Hyde and many others.
Inc guests on their arrival at the
Colony Club were received by Mrs
,Dellenbaugh and Miss Goddard. There
was general dancing throughout the
evening and supper was served
shortly after midnieh
In the party were Miss Louise
vanderbilt Schieffelin, Miss Emily
Sloane Hammond, Miss Mabel Morgan
seatterlee, Miss Lillian Livingston
Grace Helen Talbot, Miss Katherine 9e
fost,, Miss Katherine Knapp, Miss
Isabel Pcll, Miss Elizabeth Hyde, Miss
melissa and Miss Burks Yuille. Miss
Louise Morris, Miss A. Routh Ogden.
Mss Leila Emery, Miss Marion Carroll.
MISS Elise Everett, Miss Olive Van
Gawtry, Miss Virginia Van Ingen,
Miss Adelaide Kip Rhinelander, Miss
met. A-@"-
Inc fourteenth annual meeting Of
the girls branch, Public Schools Ath-
.ietic League, will be held at the resi-
Edence of Mrs. James Speyer, 1888 Fifth
Avenue, February II, at O'Clock. A
report OF the work accomplished dur
ing the last year will be read and the
election of officers for the ensuing wear
will take place.
This year, in lieu Of large public
meeting. the league has arranged for
demonstration of folk dancing and ath-
letics, to be given at Public School 1SS.
Manhattan, February "a, at o'clock.
In the last year the scope of work
OF the league has been greatly in
creased, and through Its program Of
recreational activities it has succeeded
IN reaching many thousands of girls.
Among the prominent women inter
.ested In the work of the league are
Mrs. Egerton L. Winthrop, Mrs. Cleve-
land Il. Dodge, Mrs. Richard Aldrich.
Mrs. Gustavus Town Kirby, Mrs. Loril.
lard Spencer, Mrs. James Speyer Mrs.
James Creelman. Mrs. Thomas r.
French, Mrs. Crittenden H. Adams.
Mrs. Edward C. Delaield, Mrs. Regi.
nald deKoven, Mrs. Martin Vogel, Mrs.
Howard Gushing, Mrs. William A. De-
lano, Mrs. Alfred Seton Post. Mrs.
Lewis Gouverneur Morris, Mrs. John G..
vnderhill, Mrs. 8. H. Guggenheim and
Miss Catherine s. Leverich.