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Notes for Sarah Jane SMEDLEY

Sarah Jane Smedley Becomes the Bride In Pennsylvania of Peter Anselm Spiers
Published: July 18, 1982

The marriage of Sarah Jane Smedley, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Smedley of Narberth, Pa., and Beach Haven, N.J., to Peter Anselm Spiers took place yesterday at the Episcopal Church of the Redeemer in Bryn Mawr, Pa. The Rev. Timothy Pickering performed the ceremony.

The bridegroom is the son of Ronald I. Spiers, Ambassador to Pakistan, and Mrs. Spiers of Islamabad, Pakistan; Alexandria, Va., and South Londonderry, Vt.

Stephanie Scanga was her sister's matron of honor. The best man was Richard Keatinge. The bride is a graduate of the Baldwin School and of Wesleyan University, having attended the University of London during her junior year. Formerly a sales representative for the Book Carrier in Gaithersburg, Md., she will be in marketing and sales at the Countryman Press in Woodstock, Vt. Her father is an independent manufacturer's representative to the shipbuilding industry.

Mrs. Spiers is a granddaughter of Mrs. C. Candy Balderston of Media, Pa., widow of the vice chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank in Washington, and the late Walter Smedley, a Philadelphia architect.

The bridegroom, who will enter the Amos Tuck School of Business Administration at Dartmouth College next fall, has been with Acropolis Books Inc., publishers in Washington. A cum laude graduate of Harvard College, he received a master's degree in international history from the London School of Economics. His father was formerly director of intelligence and research with the State Department in Washington and served as Ambassador to Turkey and the Bahamas.

Mr. Spiers is a grandson of Tomas H. Spiers of Jamesburg, N.J., retired executive director of the Swedenborg Publishing Foundation in New York, and the late Harold Dean Baker, president and owner of the Attleboro (Mass.) Refining Company, a precious-metals concern.
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