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Sarah Fraser Robbins (December 27, 1911 - February 9, 2002) was a writer and educator in the field of natural history and a dedicated environmentalist. Her scientific specialty was the creatures that inhabit the shallow waters of the seacoast of Massachusetts. She was a fervent birder as well. She was the first director of education at the Peabody Museum of Salem, 1971-1981. She spent many years before and after that time exploring the dwellers of the waters, littoral zone, and sky near her house in Gloucester, Massachusetts. For almost twenty years she served on the board of directors of the Massachusetts Audubon Society and contributed regular columns to the Society’s magazines. She was also a member of the Society of Woman Geographers, an elite group of adventurers and travelers. She rode elephants to see tigers in India, flew over the Alps in a hot air balloon, and fished in Afghanistan. == Early life, education, and marriage == Sarah Fraser was the youngest of five children, one boy and four girls, of George Corning Fraser (born February 25, 1872 in New York City, died November 15, 1935 in Dallas, Texas) and Jane Gardener Tutt (born August 4, 1874 in Danville, Kentucky, died December 25, 1936 in New York City). They were married December 5, 1895 in St. Louis, Missouri. Sarah was born in Morristown, New Jersey on December 27, 1911. Almost a fifty-year resident of Gloucester, she died in Boston on February 9, 2002 at the age of 90.〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher=Family Tree Maker )〕 Sarah’s father was a lawyer in New York City and amateur geologist by avocation. He had a great spirit of wanderlust that he passed on to his children. He enjoyed taking his daughters on summer field trips to the western United States, especially Utah. Sarah was educated at Brearley School in New York City, became a debutante, and was honored at a dinner and dance given by her older sisters in November, 1930. She followed her older sister, Ann, to Bryn Mawr College. She graduated in 1934 with a degree in geology, with distinction. During her senior year she received the Elizabeth S. Shippen Prize in Science. In 1934 and 1935 she returned to Brearley to teach science. In 1984, at her fiftieth reunion, she was chosen by her Bryn Mawr classmates to present the class gift to the college. On May 2, 1936, in the garden of the estate at Morristown, she married Chandler Robbins II of Boston, the son of physician Dr. William Bradford Robbins and his wife Marian Bennett Robbins. Chandler Robbins II was born in Boston on November 21, 1906 and died in Boston on June 2, 1955 of cancer. His entire career, except for the World War II years, was spent with the Bates Manufacturing Company of Lewiston, Maine, one of the greatest textile companies in America. The young couple moved to Auburn, Maine, where the first three of five children were born: Hanson Corning, born in 1937; Theodore Bennett, born in 1939; and Marian, born in 1941 and died in 1975. Two other daughters, Sarah, born in 1943, and Jane, born in 1945, were born in Washington, D.C. while their father served in the production section of the research and development division of the Office of the Quartermaster General. At the time of Chandler Robbins’s death, he was described as “assistant to the president in charge of research and development” for the Bates Manufacturing Company. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Sarah Fraser Robbins」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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