Harold W. Smith ’50

Harold died April 23, 2019, in Saratoga Springs, N.Y.

A graduate of Dwight Morrow (Englewood, N.J.) High School, at Princeton he majored in history, sang in the Glee Club, and belonged to Campus. He left Princeton after his junior year, going on to earn a degree from his father’s alma mater, Randolph-Macon, in 1952.

After he earned a master’s of divinity degree at Union Seminary, his early career included serving Methodist churches in Northern New Jersey, theological study in Germany, and chaplaincy at SUNY Agricultural and Technical College in Delhi, N.Y., where he also taught history.

Following a sabbatical teaching in Korea in 1980, he became a marriage and family counselor and minister at large for the Delaware County Council of Churches, and interim pastor for several churches in Walton, N.Y. In 1990 he and wife Camilla, a fellow seminarian whom he married in 1952, retired and moved to Saratoga Springs.

At Princeton and thereafter, Harold’s tenor voice was heard in many solo roles. He had a passion for social justice as evidenced by his efforts with roommate Bill Wallace to ensure an all-inclusive bicker. He enjoyed fine dining and the good-natured competitiveness of tennis and golf.

Harold is survived by Camilla; four children, including Heather Smith ’80; and 10 grandchildren.