Class of 1880
Bench and bar of Worcester County, Mass., paid homage to Webster Thayer in a memorial service February 9 at the court house in Worcester. Distinguished jurists, attorneys, and personal friends spoke intimately of his ability as an attorney, his eminence, fairness, and courage as a judge, and his geniality and fidelity as a friend.
The keynote of the occasion was struck by Hon. Herbert Parker, former attorneygeneral of the state and a lifelong acquaintance of Judge Thayer, in the following brief paragraph:
"Now in the light of eternal truth, hehas and holds his revered and eminentplace with the great judges of our historywho in character, courage, vigilance, andfidelity of service have made the honorable fame of our Massachusetts judiciarythe watchword of a people's faith andthe security of our laws."
The addresses were all of high order and covered every phase of Thayer's outstanding characteristics as a man, a friend, a lawyer, a sportsman, and a judge of the Superior Court.
Dr. and Mrs. N. W. Sanborn recently celebrated (or their friends celebrated for them) their golden wedding anniversary at Gainesville, Fla., where Dr. Sanborn holds a professor's chair in the University of Florida. The event was ushered in when at the annual meeting of one section of the State Federation of Women's Clubs, of which Mrs. Sanborn is a prominent member, the members filed into the banquet hall for lunch with Dr. and Mrs. Sanborn as guests of the club, and they were greeted by the music of a wedding march. Telegrams from various clubs, churches, and social organizations, besides scores of messages from personal friends, were received at the Sanborn residence. Among numerous floral remembrances was a beautiful bouquet of calenduli from the University of Florida chapter of Beta Theta Pi fraternity. Dr. Sanborn was a member of the Dartmouth chapter of this fraternity.
Dr. Sanborn was born in Marblehead, Mass., was a member of the class of '80 for one year, when he transferred to the medical department, where he graduated in 1880, and then took a post-graduate course in New York College of Physicians and Surgeons. He practiced his profession several years in Massachusetts before going to Gainesville to teach in the University. He writes that he still holds his professorial chair and receives his salary check regularly, though allowed considerable freedom in deciding what he shall do. He expects to be at the class reunion with Mrs. Sanborn in 1935.
Secretary, 1052 Union St., Manchester, N. H.
