Albert K. Smiley *78

Albert Smiley, who after working for the U.S. Department of Justice became the resident innkeeper of Mohonk Mountain House (the historic resort built by his family in 1869), died of leukemia Oct. 16, 2018. He was 74.

Smiley graduated from Syracuse University in 1966. In 1978 he earned a Ph.D. in economics from Princeton. He then became director of research for the Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice.

In 1990 Smiley and his wife, Nina *79, both changed careers. He became president of the resort and Nina became its director of marketing. They retired in June 2018. As resident innkeepers they lived a four-minute walk from the resort.

Mohonk Mountain House is on 7,500 acres, 90 miles north of New York City. Smiley installed a skating rink in an open-air pavilion in 2001 and added a sumptuous swimming pool and spa in 2005. In 2016 he added Grove Lodge, the first new accommodation in more than a century. In the 1960s the family agreed to preserve more than 5,000 acres as forever wild, and in 2011 Smiley was key to transferring an additional 874 acres to the Open Space Institute.

Smiley is survived by Nina, whom he married in 1974, and a sister.

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