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+ | ====== Sanborn, Monica Lillian ====== | ||
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+ | The class of 1905 boasted the first women--two of them--to complete the four-year course and graduate with bachelor of science degrees. | ||
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+ | Monica Lillian Sanborn, class of 1905, was born October 15, 1882. From Salem, she lived in [[d: | ||
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+ | Two years after graduation, in what may have been MAC's first alumni marriage, Sanborn wed William O. Taft (class of 1906) in Vermont. (Taft is mentioned in the //College Signal// as Sanborn’s date to some of the college dances.) The family later moved to a farm in Sterling, Mass., and she served as a trustee of the town library. The Tafts' elder child, Roger, graduated with the class of 1930. They also had a daughter, Rosamond, who attended Skidmore and may have transferred to Simmons. "It doesn’t seem to me that there is anything in my life history that will be interesting," | ||
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+ | ==== References ==== | ||
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+ | * Class of 1905 Records (RG 50/6), Special Collections and University Archives, UMass Amherst Libraries | ||
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+ | * //Index// of 1903 | ||
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+ | * //Index// of 1905 | ||
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+ | * //Index// of 1906 | ||
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+ | * See also [[w: | ||