Wallace Howard Smith ’31

Red, one of the most loyal of all Princetonians, was born Nov. 19, 1908, in Joplin, Mo., and died Mar. 25, 2001, in Kissimmee, Fla. His clothes, his house, his actions, his glassware — everything had some Princeton identification.

He prepared at Mercersburg, and at Princeton he was on the freshman baseball squad, Glee Club, choir, and a member of Elm Club. He even wrote his own obit, and we were able to squeeze this bit in: "After graduation he was Florida representative for Hercules Powder and, in what he considered the luckiest decision of his life, married Mary Roess. Red set out to amass as many titles as he could, and they included city commissioner, mayor, president of the Kiwanis Club, founding member of the Park Board, president of the Chamber of Commerce, commander, American Legion Post, founding board member of the Golf & Country Club, president of the Rotary Club, church elder, all the while being Brooksville, Florida's Movie Exhibitor."

Red is survived by his daughters, Mary Townsend and Julie Roess-Smith, son, Martin F., and four grandchildren. The class extends its deepest sympathy to the entire family.

The Class of 1931