Sarah Fay Dies At Age of Ninety

Mrs. Sarah Proctor Fay, 90, long a prominent member of the Harvard community, died Monday at her home in Cambridge after a brief illness.

She was the wife of Sidney Bradshaw Fay '96 professor of History, emeritus, who held the first joint appointment ever made by Harvard and Radcliffe.

Mrs. Fay took great interest in welcoming new members of the History Department and their families to Cambridge. Oscar Handlin, Winthrop Professor of History, said of her, "Generations of Harvard historians and their wives will remember her as a great lady, gracious, educated, and to the end involved in everything that went on about her."

She was married on Aug. 17, 1904. She and her husband lived in Hanover, NH., where he taught history at Dartmonth, until 1904, and in Northampton, where he taught at Smith College. They came to Harvard in 1929.