Richard J. Smith ’66

Rick died Nov. 8, 2018. His family held a private service in Taos County, N.M.

Rick was in the first graduating class of Albuquerque’s Manzano High School, where he was student body president. At Princeton he majored in politics, spent a year on the WPRB staff, belonged to Whig-Clio, and was treasurer of Cloister Inn’s board of trustees.

In 1969 Rick earned a law degree at the University of Texas. He spent the next 44 years as a lawyer, state and federal prosecutor, and federal administrative law judge, retiring in 2013.

He is survived by his wife, Layne Vickers Smith; son Todd Torkelson; sister Judy Proffitt; and brother David Smith. The class extends condolences to them all.