Sarah (“Sally”) Pillsbury was born on July 8, 1914 in Swampscott, Massachusetts, the daughter of Helen Farrington Watters and Samuel Hale Pillsbury, a lawyer. She attended the Winsor School in Boston, a girls’ preparatory school where her friends included Mary (“Molly”) Duncan Weed, who later married and practiced with the designer Eliot Noyes.11Interview with Sarah Harkness conducted by Perry Neubauer, November 3, 2006. I am grateful to Neubauer for providing the transcript of this...
