Maynard died April 17, 2012.

Smitty, as he was usually known, came to Princeton from Hempstead (N.Y.) High School. He roomed with Van Flynn during freshman year, with Flynn and Phil Confer sophomore year, and with John Willis and Charlie Sanders during his junior and senior years. He majored in economics, joined Terrace Club, and graduated with honors and a Phi Beta Kappa key. He had hoped to continue his high school interest in track, but an injury acquired during Cane Spree wiped out that idea. Instead, he managed the fencing team during his last two years and also was able to participate as a team member.

Smitty joined the military after graduation as an aviation cadet in meteorology and finished as a major four and a half years later. He helped establish the first national weather center in 1942 and commanded a group of the 13 Ninth Air Force weather detachments in France and Germany.

After the war, he spent three years with American Airlines and then 24 years with Brookhaven National Laboratory, investigating low-level turbulence, diffusion, and air pollution. In 1973 he formed his own air-pollution consulting company, Meteorological Evaluation Services, where he worked until his retirement in 1986.

He and his late wife, Doreen Dallam, spent most of their 41 years together on Long Island. Since 1994, Smitty had been living in Suffield and Enfield, Conn., with his companion, June Stern. He is survived by his daughter, Kathleen Smith; two grandchildren; and one great-grandson.

Undergraduate Class of 1941