Max Truman Smith Jr. ’41

Red died Sept. 2, 2002, in Naples, Fla. A native of Wallace, Idaho., he graduated from Lawrenceville. At Princeton he majored in chemistry, joined Cannon, and roomed with Milton Brown the first two years, and for two years with Phil Christian, Bill Diver, and George Lewis.

Joining the Navy as an ensign in July 1941, Red served three years in the Bureau of Naval Ordnance in DC, and then served as executive officer of the Naval Ammunition Depot in Guam, before being separated as lieutenant commander in Mar. 1946.

Obtaining his master's in mechanical engineering from Stanford in 1948, Red joined Standard Oil of California. Recalled to duty in the Korean War, he served 17 months as a commander in DC. He returned to civilian life as a manufacturers' representative, also in DC. He moved to Naples during the 1960s and started a tax accounting business, which he sold in the late '90s. Red was a member of the Naples Yacht Club and the Royal Poinciana Golf Club. Predeceased by his first wife, Gloria Goode Smith, in 1986, and then by his second, Peggy Dunn Smith, in 1989, he is survived by his nephews, Frederick and Phil White.

The Class of 1941