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- Scarsdale Inquirer, 23 December 1943
Bassett-Dickinson
The marriage on Saturday afternoon of Miss Louise Whiting Bassett and Ensign Allen Dickinson Rugg took place at 4:30 at the Hitchcock Memorial Church. Following the ceremony, at which the Rev. Dr. George Hugh Smyth officiated, there was a small recepti9on at the Woodland Place home of Mr. and Mrs. Harry C. Barteau.
The bride was given in marriage by her father, Major William H. Bassett, Jr. of Popham Hall. She wore a severely plain gown of cream satin with a long train, and her mother?s wedding veil, held by a coronet, of seed pearls. Her flowers were gardenias and bouvardia in a cascade.
Miss Cecyl Hudson Smith, of Popham Road, maid of honor, was in a similar costume in lipstick red color, with short sleeves and no train. She married a muff of white gladioli. Bridesmaids were in white faille with muffs of poinsettias in their hair. They were Miss Violet Hunt of Bronxville and Miss Alice Harrison of Clarksburg, West Virginia.
Robert C. Rugg was best man for his brother. Ushers included another brother, William Phelps Rugg; Ensign S. Dakin Chamberlain, Jr., of Walpole, Massachusetts, and Private Russell Alexander, Jr., of Greenfield, Massachusetts.
Mrs. Rugg is a graduate of Scarsdale schools and was in her junior year at Wilson College. Ensign Rugg, son of Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Dewitt Rugg of Ruggate, Greenfield, Massachusetts, was graduated from Deerfield Academy and from Amherst College, where he was a member of Chi Phi. He is attending the supply corps course at Harvard University, and he and his bride expect to live in Cambridge this winter.
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