Sanborn, Agnes Goldman, 1887-1984.

Agnes Goldman Sanborn was born in New York City on August 30, 1887, the youngest daughter of Julius and Sarah Adler Goldman. Active in civic and humanitarian causes, Sanborn (Bryn Mawr, B.A., 1909; Columbia University, M.A., 1913; New York University, Ph.D. in bacteriology, 1923) joined the Red Cross in WWI, was a bacteriologist in Palestine (1918-1919), and worked at the New York Board of Health and the Boston Psychopathic Hospital. She was active in the United Jewish Appeal in the 1930s and 1940s, she was first vice-president of the Cambridge League of Women Voters, co-founder of the Cambridge Community Center, and a supporter of civil rights and civil liberties.

Archaelogist and museum administrator, Cyrus Ashton Rollins Sanborn (Harvard, A.B., 1905; A.M., 1908) held a number of fellowships in the U.S. and abroad before being appointed assistant field director of the University Museum (Philadelphia) expedition to Egypt (1915-1920). On leave of absence from the expedition, he served as executive secretary to the American Red Cross Commission to Palestine (1918-1919). He was later editorialsecretary to the leader of the Harvard University-Boston Museum of Fine Arts Egyptian expedition (1920-1925), and at the Museum of Fine Arts served as librarian, secretary, editor of the Boston Museum Bulletin (1925-1952) and education officer (1934-1942). The Sanborns married in 1924; a daughter Sarah was born in 1928.

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