Dewitt Hendee Smith ’26

DeWitt, scholar, athlete, and distinguished physician, died Mar. 4, 1991, at Corvallis, Ore. A junior Phi Bete, DeWitt rowed on the crew and was a well-known member of '26. A Rhodes scholar, Dewitt studied at Balliol College, where he took first honors. He took his medical degree at Columbia P. & S., again liking honors. During WWII, he was with the 27th Division, participating in the battles of Saigon and Okinawa.

Postwar, DeWitt and his bride of 1935, the former Mary Campbell Smith, moved to Princeton, where DeWitt was cofounder of the Princeton Medical Group. Life was abruptly changed, however, when DeWitt suffered a stroke which left him partially paralyzed. In 1969 they moved to Hawaii, where DeWitt was an outstanding physician, practicing from a wheelchair. The year 1986 saw them in Corvallis next to a daughter, Carly Davis. In addition to Mary and Carly, DeWitt is survived by daughters Audrey Reed, Susan Newton, and Nacky Eads, and a son, Blake, by 13 grandchildren and several greatgrandchildren, to all of whom we extend our profound sympathy. DeWitt was an outgoing, courageous person who will be long remembered by his classmates.

The Class of 1926