Levi P. Smith Jr. ’40

Levi died Dec. 7, 2004, in Shelburne, Vt., after a year of failing health. Sybil, his wife of 53 years, said, "He died peacefully and with dignity and love."

A graduate of Phillips Academy in Andover, Mass., he followed his brothers, Frederick '37 and Robert '39, to Princeton, where he majored in the humanities, attaining departmental honors. He was a member of Elm Club.

Levi pursued graduate studies in law, economics, and banking at Harvard Law School, and Wayne and Rutgers universities. From 1942-48 he served in the medical department of the Army Air Force as a technical sergeant. For eight years afterward, he was US vice consul in England, the Belgian Congo, and Ontario.

Levi became the last of a three-generation dynasty at the Burlington [Vt.] Savings Bank, retiring in 1981 after serving as senior vice president, chief economist, and corporate secretary.

He held offices in a remarkably long roster of local, national, and international banking associations and extracurricular organizations, culminating in receiving the US Treasury Department's Award of Merit for Patriotic Service.

Levi is survived by his wife, Sybil Watts Smith; his sons, Levi III and John, and their families; his daughter, Barbara Smith Murphy; six grandchildren; and his brother, Robert '39. To them, his classmates extend sincere sympathies.

The Class of 1940