Sprague family

Atherton Hall Sprague (AC 1920) (1897-1986) was born in Amherst, and served in the U.S. Army during World War I before receiving a Bachelor's degree from Amherst College in 1920. He later received a Master's in 1923 and a Ph.D. in 1941, both from Princeton University. He served as a professor of mathematics at Amherst College from 1920 until his retirement in 1966, and authored three mathematics textbooks: Essentials of plane trigonometry and analytic geometry (1934); Essentials of plane and spherical trigonometry (1942); and Calculus (1952). He also coached the Amherst College tennis team. Following his retirement, he served as a visiting professor at Mount Holyoke and Hollins Colleges. After his retirement, he and his wife Marion moved to Penobscot, ME, where he lived until his death.

Marion Whittemore Sprague (1900-1990), better known as Mary Ann, was born and raised in Newport, New Hampshire, and graduated from Smith College in 1922. She was involved in Amherst social and literary life, including the Ladies of Amherst College organization and the Tuesday Club. She was a frequent contributor to the Smith Alumnae Quarterly. She and her daughter Rosemary were both involved with Amherst College's Kirby Theater, where Marion may have helped with making costumes. She and her husband, Atherton, moved to Maine after his retirement from Amherst College, and she passed away at a nursing home in Penobscot, ME, in 1990.

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