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The late T. Jefferson Smith was a long-time beloved Kalamazoo College math professor, the driving force behind bringing change ringing and the English tower bells to Stetson Chapel, and a true Renaissance man with a breath-taking assortment of hobbies. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Known as both Jeff and T.J., Smith was respected and admired by students and colleagues alike during his nearly 30 years at Kalamazoo College. His life and legacy are now being honored with the Professor T. Jefferson Smith Memorial Scholarship. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

An anonymous donor established the fund as a practice of gratitude after a classroom experience where students were asked to name a personal hero, and many shared stories of teachers that changed their lives. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI thought, \u2018Shouldn\u2019t we do something to recognize teachers for how much they do for us?\u2019\u201d the donor said. \u201cMy feeling is that teachers may not know the impact they have on students, in part because students have a long trajectory ahead. Learning experiences can have an effect that may not appear for 10, 20, 30 years. It\u2019s important to recognize our teachers for the formative effect they have on us at a very formative time of life.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Smith was initially hired by Kalamazoo College in 1961; after his first year of teaching, he was offered a research position with the geophysical staff at the Carnegie Institution for Science in Washington, D.C. The opportunity was too good to pass up. Smith told his family that working in applied science would balance his theoretical training and benefit his future students when he returned to the College, which he did eagerly in 1967. Smith taught at K for nearly three decades before retiring in 1994. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cJeff and I enjoyed, admired and had deep and sincere affection for our students and our colleagues,\u201d said his widow, Carol Smith, who was a reference librarian at K for many years. \u201cK was a wonderful place to be and we loved all the time there.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Smith died in April 2019, at the age of 88. The scholarship, which supports Kalamazoo College students with financial need, would have pleased him, Carol Smith said. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cEducation was paramount in Jeff’s mind\u2014the combination of the intellectual fulfillment of education and the ability to change your life,\u201d Carol Smith said. \u201cHe grew up in rural Georgia\u2014no plumbing, no running water, milk the cows before you go to school. His family was very close, very warm. They were very, very poor, and no one then had a college education, but his interest in music and education was encouraged. Jeff was an outstanding high school student, and he must have had some scholarship help to get through college, even though he worked as well. This scholarship would have meant so very much to him. It\u2019s a perfect memorial for Jeff, and my children and I appreciate it very much.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Contributing to the fund is a practice of gratitude and appreciation for Alan Hewett \u201971, very much in the spirit of the establishment of the scholarship. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI have supported K continuously since I graduated as a form of appreciation for the training and growth I gained there,\u201d Hewett said. \u201cI just added a gift to the T.J. Smith fund because T.J. was such a good mentor for me and because I wanted to acknowledge and honor that experience and the man. My biggest hope is that, in some small way, it will provide an opportunity for a few more people to attend K and gain some of the advantages that I received from K.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Those advantages included the opportunity to learn from Smith. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHe was not only my favorite professor; he was one of the main reasons I went back to reunions while he was still teaching,\u201d Hewett said. \u201cAt the time, it didn’t occur to me that T. J. was a Renaissance man.\u202f I just liked his teaching style. In retrospect, he truly was a Renaissance man, interested in so many things and fun to be around.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Smith would bring his many interests into the classroom, incorporating stories of fighting kites, bell ringing, playing the viola, bicycle racing, model airplanes, bread baking and more into math lectures. (After retirement, he would continue and expand his hobbies, including yo-yos, spinning tops, apple growing, antique tractor restoration, the melodeon\u2014a small, accordion-like musical instrument\u2014and more.) <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHe could make people who didn\u2019t care much for math enjoy it because they could get into the story,\u201d Hewett said. \u201cHe managed to take things that were fun to do and move them into something you would have to use math for.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Smith received the Florence J. Lucasse Lectureship for Excellence in Teaching Award<\/a> in 1985 for outstanding achievement in creative work, research and publication. In 1993, he was presented the Weimer K. Hicks Award<\/a> for providing excellent service in the performance of his job and making a significant contribution to the College in founding the Kalamazoo College Guild of Change Ringers in 1977 and spearheading the 1984 installation of eight English bells in the tower of Stetson Chapel. Those efforts also led to him being named Ringing Master of the College in 1988. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Change ringing with Smith has been a key part of the K experience for many alumni, including Tom Farthing \u201983. With his first term under his belt, Farthing started winter term 1980 confident that he could handle the academics, yet unsure how and where he fit into the College\u2014until the first Sunday of the term, when he tried change ringing. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt made sense to me immediately,\u201d Farthing said. \u201cIt was this two-pronged thing: There was an activity that made sense to the way my brain works, and then there was Jeff, who was teaching people, encouraging people, smoothing the path. I found my people there, and that was the majority of my connection with the College.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The change ringing community brought Farthing together with his wife, Christine (Stibal) Farthing \u201985, who was a friend in college. They stayed in contact after graduation, eventually becoming a couple, due to the community Smith developed and nurtured so well. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWhen I was a sophomore, my suitemates threw a surprise birthday party for me, and they invited Jeff, and he came,\u201d Farthing said. \u201cI can still picture him walking toward our suite and instantly everyone was all around him, which was typical. He was so engaging and eloquent and full of stories. He was just a magnet.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Smith was also an excellent professor, Farthing said, always prepared and interesting, and a role model. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHe was big on self-improvement,\u201d Farthing said. \u201cHe knew he should improve his handwriting because he was writing in front of students, so he studied calligraphy and developed his beautiful handwriting. He would work on his vocabulary, one word at a time. I remember \u2018ubiquitous\u2019 was his word for a while, and he just worked it into everyday conversation, and you\u2019d say, \u2018Oh, there\u2019s that word again.\u2019 \u2018Copacetic\u2019 was another one. He did that for years.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the Smith family home on Bulkley Street, Carol Smith said, \u201cthere was a little southern porch off our bedroom, and Jeff turned it into his office. One of the classroom buildings was being renovated and he got an old chalkboard, which he put up in his office. He would go through his lectures, even writing on the board, before all his classes.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Smith was devoted to his students as well as his family, Carol Smith said. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHe was extremely ethical, caring and warm and generous,\u201d she said. \u201cHe was very devoted. He was quite passionate about things in an understated way.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Within the math department, those qualities helped Smith serve as a respected colleague and mentor. He was the first person whom Professor of Mathematics Emeritus John Fink met in Kalamazoo, greeting Fink at the train station with a firm handshake\u2014a grip Fink can still feel.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

When Fink was a young professor struggling with the transition from his mathematics Ph.D. program to an undergraduate classroom, Smith\u2014who generally was not one for giving advice\u2014offered him a phrase Fink would return to again and again. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe gulf between where professors are as trained Ph.D. mathematicians and where the students are is so vast,\u201d Fink said. \u201cIt was a shock to me, and I think it\u2019s a shock for a lot of people. I came into Jeff\u2019s office, and I was complaining about something, and he said, \u2018It\u2019s the undergraduate gamble.\u2019 He didn\u2019t say much more than that, but I carried it with me. It\u2019s the undergraduate gamble. Whenever I would get frustrated, those words would come back to me. What\u2019s the gamble? Well, I\u2019m betting on the potential that is not yet evident in this student. I think that was Jeff\u2019s approach to lots of things. He would bet on the potential, and I think he won most of the time. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cJeff was a great mentor for me. He took the undergraduate gamble on me. When I didn’t see anything in myself, he saw something in me\u2014or maybe he didn’t, but he behaved in a way that would bring it out of me anyway.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In department meetings, two professors who had strong personalities would sit at either end of the table and \u201cbe talking past each other with lots of energy,\u201d Fink said. \u201cAt some point, Jeff would just put his head into the exchange and say, \u2018So what I hear is this.\u2019 He would say it in a clear, accurate and eloquent way, and whatever he said, that turned out to be what the department did.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Smith had an appreciation for clarity, rigor, economy and beauty, Fink said; a positive, generous, attitude; a disarming Georgia accent and \u201caw shucks\u201d attitude; and a way of holding students to rigorous expectations while maintaining a positive relationship with them. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIf I was in the hallway outside of his classroom, I would listen to Jeff teaching and just appreciate his wonderful approach to the subject,\u201d Fink said. \u201cWhenever I would think that I might have gotten up to Jeff Smith quality in my own teaching, I would stand outside his classroom to listen and see how much farther I had to go.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Smith taught Fink how to handle the ropes for change ringing before Fink\u2019s 1990 sabbatical to Oxford, England, so that Fink could ring while he was there. Fink currently teaches a class at Kalamazoo College on ringing, and is part of the band of change ringers that regularly rings in Stetson Chapel tower. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

When Fink learned of the Professor T. Jefferson Smith Memorial Scholarship, he felt joy, he said. He recalled how former students and change ringers came from all over the country for Smith\u2019s memorial service, which he saw as a measure of the impact Smith had. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt\u2019s fitting, then, that he can still have an impact on future students by this scholarship,\u201d Fink said. \u201cNow, I want those scholarship recipients to know Jeff in the way his students and colleagues did. This scholarship allows Jeff\u2019s relationship to the College and his memory to be part of the foundation of another student\u2019s education.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Donate to the T. Jefferson Smith Memorial Scholarship<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

If you would like to support K students and give in honor of Professor Smith, please\u202fmake a gift online to the Professor T. Jefferson Smith Memorial Scholarship<\/a> or contact Nicki Poer, associate director of special initiatives, at 269.337.7281 or\u202fnicki.poer@kzoo.edu<\/a>. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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