Fred Burton Smith ’37

Longtime Treasury Dept. official and North Carolina basketball enthusiast Fred B. Smith died Nov. 2, 1998, of cardiac arrest. His first wife, Jeanne, died in 1954. He is survived by his wife, Lynda, nine children, 16 grandchildren, and three greatgrandchildren.

At Fayetteville [N.Y.] H.S. Fred was valedictorian. At Princeton he majored in politics, was assistant manager of the basketball team, and belonged to the AntiWar Society and Whig Hall.

He graduated from Syracuse U. Law School and practiced general law in Syracuse for three years. For the next 26 years he was with the Office of the Secretary of the Treasury in Washington, D.C. Early in his career at Treasury he worked with Foreign Funds Control. After WWII he was financial adviser to the Philippine government and then worked on international trade and finance issues. He was appointed general counsel of the Treasury by President Johnson in 1966. For his distinguished service at Treasury he was given the Exceptional Service Award and the Treasury Dept.'s highest honor, the Alexander Hamilton Award.

He retired from government service in 1969 to teach at the Syracuse U. Research Corp. and to serve as an international trade consultant to the law firm of Rogers and Wells in Washington. Fred moved to Chapel Hill, N.C., in 1979, and summered in Cazenovia, N.Y.

The Class of 1937