Courtney Craig Smith (1969)
BRANDT, CLAMPITT, INGRAM, MOORE, SHOEMAKER, SMITH, VAN SYOC, VINCENT
Posted By: Mary Welty Hart
Date: 12/24/2006 at 11:25:47
The Winterset Madisonian
Winterset, Iowa
Wednesday, April 30, 1969COURTNEY SMITH Burial Rites Here
A private committal service for the ashes of Dr. Courtney Craig Smith, aged 52, of Swarthmore, Pennsylvania, was held at the Winterset cemetery, last Wednesday morning, April 23rd. The Rev. John Fink conducted the brief service at 10:30 a.m.
Mr. Smith, a native of Winterset was a son of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Craig Smith, and attended the Winterset schools until the end of his freshman year, when he and his mother moved to Des Moines, following the death of his father, Winterset attorney.
The deceased had been president of Swarthmore college since 1953. He is survived by his wife, and their three children; Craig Smith of Philadelphia, Mrs. Greg Ingram of Cambridge, Mass., and Dabney, who is a student at Barnard college in New York City. He also leaves his mother, Mrs. Sam C. (Dabney) Smith, who now resides in Bethesda, Maryland and two brothers, Murray D. Smith of San Francisco, Calif., and Caarleton D. Smith of Washington, D.C., and a sister, Mrs. Bryce Van Syoc of Godfrey, Illinois.
His widow, who will move to Philadelphia this summer, and daughter, Mrs. Ingram of Cambridge, and Mrs. Van Syoc of Godfrey were here for the service.
________________________The Winterset Madisonian
Winterset, Iowa
Wednesday, January 22, 1969
Page 1, Column 3DR. COURTNEY SMITH DIES
Dr. Courtney C. Smith, one of Madison county’s most distinguished native sons, died Thursday, Jan. 16, at Swarthmore, Pa. He was 52 years of age. Death resulted from an apparent heart attack.
Dr. Smith was president of Swarthmore college in that city, although he had tendered his resignation recently in order to accept the presidency of the Markle foundation, an organization which operates a 47-million dollar fund in the fields of medical research and education. He also was administrative head of the Rhodes scholarships in the United States. He had been at Swarthmore since 1953.
He was born in Winterset, a member of a formerly well-known family in this community. He was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Sam C. Smith. His father was a Winterset attorney.
He made Winterset his home until after his freshman year in Winterset High School. Following the death of his father, he moved to Des Moines with his mother in 1931, and graduated from Roosevelt High school with the class of 1934.
He attended Harvard university, from where he was graduated with a B.A. degree, and where he made Phi Beta Kappa. In 1938-39 he was a Rhodes scholar at Merton College, Oxford, England. He subsequently received M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from Harvard, and served there as a teaching fellow and tutor in English.
After serving two and a half years in the U.S. navy, he became a member of the Princeton faculty, as an instructor and later assistant professor and bicentennial preceptor of English.
In 1952-53 he was named the first director of the national Woodrow Wilson Fellowship program, to recruit outstanding men and women for the teaching profession.
Doctor Smith is survived by his wife, Elizabeth; and three children, Mrs. Greg Ingram of Cambridge, Mass., Craig Smith, a senior law student at the University of Pennsylvania and Miss Dabney Smith, at home, who is a student at Barnard college. He also leaves his mother, Mrs. Sam C. Smith of Bethesda, Md.; two brothers, Murray D. Smith of San Francisco and Carleton D. Smith of Washington, D.C.; and a sister, Mrs. Bryce Van Syoc of Godfrey, Ill.
Five cousins of Doctor Smith now live in Madison county. They are Mrs. J. C. Moore, Mrs. Gertrude Shoemaker, Mrs. Laura Brandt, and Mrs. Harry Vincent, all of Winterset and Mrs. Bess Clampitt of Earlham.
Two memorial services were held Sunday for Doctor Smith at Swarthmore college.
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