David Arrender Smith ’51

David was born June 12, 1929, to Cedric and Ellen Coxen Smith in Brooklyn, N.Y., where he graduated from James Madison High School in 1947.

At Princeton he majored in history, belonged to Prospect Club, and sang in the Chapel Choir. He roomed with Langthorne Sykes. In 1958 he married Eve Pearlman.

David is the co-author of The Minority Foster Child: A Comparative Study of Hispanic, Black and White Children, and was the director of systems support/research with the Planned Parenthood Federation of America, where he worked until retirement.

He died Oct. 29, 2016, in Pine Hill, N.Y, of cancer. He was 87. David was predeceased by his brother, Frank, and sister, Barbara Gondor. He is survived by Eve; their children Jonathan, Amity, Robert, Peter, and Alison; three grandchildren; and a great-grandchild. He is buried in the family plot in Woodlawn Cemetery in the Bronx.