The Foreign Service Journal, March 2010

M A R C H 2 0 1 0 / F O R E I G N S E R V I C E J O U R N A L 77 Michigan, he helped found and volun- teered on the Joint Student Judiciary Council. In 1950, Mr. Smith earned his un- dergraduate degree and then at- tended the University of Michigan Law School. His law school studies were interrupted by military service in the U.S. Marine Corps during the Korean War. After receiving his LLB in 1954, he did post-graduate legal studies at the London School of Eco- nomics. Later in life, he received a doctorate in education from Syracuse University. After a short period in private legal practice in Cleveland, Mr. Smith joined the Foreign Service, where he truly found his passion. He spent the initial portion of his FS career work- ing for the U.S. Information Agency. Later he joined the U.S. Agency for In- ternational Development. Mr. Smith and his family were posted overseas to Mexico, Ecuador, Venezuela, Peru and Morocco. His last posting was as mis- sion director in Colombia. Upon retirement from the Foreign Service in 1992, Mr. Smith received the USAID Administrator’s Distin- guished Career Service Award, the agency’s highest award for career serv- ice. He then settled in Tucson, Ariz., but continued to work on international matters, teaching and consulting with the University of Arizona, Pima County Community College and other organizations. He also became certi- fied to teach in the Tucson public school system and taught in a variety of schools there. Family and friends remember Mr. Smith as a consummate gentleman, a loving husband and father, and a be- liever in living a full life and in striving to achieve and achieving one’s full po- tential. He was passionate about his work in international development and dedicated most of his life to this worth- while cause. Mr. Smith was formerly married to Elise Fiber Smith, who survives him, and later to Luz Marina Gomez de Smith, who predeceased him. He is survived by his wife, Beatriz Montijo Smith, of Tucson, Ariz.; his brother, Doug Smith of Crystal River, Fla.; his sons, Greg Smith (and his wife, Linda) of Beaufort, S.C., and Guy I N M E M O R Y