Lester Wickham Smith ’30 *33

LES SMITH died July 24, 1993, at the Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon, N.H., after a long illness. He had a long and distinguished career as an architect, receiving many honors, including the high honor of being elected a fellow of the American Institute of Architects. Les came to Princeton from Poly Prep Country Day School (CUM laude) and kept the honors rolling with a Phi Beta Kappa key at college graduation, in 1930. His great pride in Princeton needed further nurturing, so he came back and received his M.F.A. with highest honors in architecture in 1933. That same year, he was awarded a fellowship to study at the Fontainebleau School of Fine Arts in France. The next year, he was made a fellow of Princeton Univ. Later, he was on the advisory council of the School of Architecture and served on the Univ. Graduate Council. He was a captain in the air force in WWII, and had some unusual duty in China. His architectural specialties were school and university buildings, of which the list is far too long to include here. His firm was Sherwood, Mills, and Smith of Stamford, Con now S.M.S. of New Canaan. He loved to sing glee clubs and choirs. In 1944, he married Be Knoll of Dayton, Ohio, who survives, as do t three children, William Wickham, Anne Goodh and Josephine Koehne, and three grandchildren. Our sincere sympathies are with these folks, who lost gentle, loving family man.

The Class of 1930