William M. Smith Obituary

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Graduation Year	Class of 1939
Date of Passing	Oct 20, 2009
About	HANOVER, NH: William Milton Smith, 88, Professor Emeritus of Psychology at Dartmouth, died at Hanover Terrace Healthcare on Tuesday, October 20, 2009, after a lengthy illness. Mr. Smith was born July 15, 1921, in Zanesville, Ohio, the youngest of nine sons born to Anna Hoobing Smith and Harry Howard Smith. He graduated from Lash High School in 1939. He received his BA from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio in 1943, then served in the U.S. Army at the Presidio in San Francisco, California. After the war he attended Princeton University where he received his Master's Degree and his PhD in psychology. On July 3, 1949 he married Madlyn R. Fernicola at the Princeton University chapel. In 1951 he was appointed assistant professor at Princeton. He joined the Dartmouth faculty in 1958 as an associate professor and became a full professor in 1962 and was later advanced to the head of the Psychology Department. In 2004 he generously established the William M. Smith Promise Fund in Brain Research- an annual award to the graduate student who demonstrated unusual promise in brain research. Professor Smith was the author of several books, including "The Behavior of Man", written with his brother Professor K.U. Smith, published in 1958, and "Perception and Motion: An Analysis of Space-Structured Behavior" published in 1958. Professor Smith wanted to recognize the excellent care he received at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, therefore he established three annual Promise Awards in nursing that support DHMC nurses who wish to advance their professional education. They are The Madlyn R. Smith award, The Anna Hoobing Smith award, and the Marisa Smith Kraus award, honoring his wife, his mother and his daughter. Professor Smith was pre-deceased by his parents and his eight brothers, Howard, Karl, Harold, Robert, Claude (Jack), Clyde, Arthur and Albert. Mr. Smith is survived by his wife of sixty years, Madlyn; his daughter, Marisa Smith Kraus; his grandsons, Luke and Peter Kraus; and numerous nieces and nephews, including Paul V. Smith of Nashport, Ohio. Contributions in his memory may be made to any of the Promise Awards, Dartmouth Hitchcock Memorial Hospital, One Medical Center Drive, Lebanon, NH 03766, Attn: Promise Award.