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Over the course of his 51-year association with Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션s 카지노 게임 컬렉션 37 years as a professor in History (1969카지노 게임 컬렉션2001), four years in Kinesiology (2002카지노 게임 컬렉션2006), and 15 subsequent years as professor emeritus, Dr. Smith fashioned an enduring tricolour legacy.
His scholarly reputation was international. He was 카지노 게임 컬렉션 among many other engagements 카지노 게임 컬렉션 a longtime member of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations; he served nine years on the executive of the Peace History Society (including a 1995카지노 게임 컬렉션97 stint as president); and in 2015 he accepted the group카지노 게임 컬렉션s Lifetime Achievement Award.
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All that aside, it was in his role as classroom teacher that generations of alumni remember Geoff Smith best, and with such great fondness. Understandably so, for he was endlessly inventive when it came to finding ways to engage his students. For more than three decades, History 273: Conspiracy and Dissent in 20th-century America was one of the most popular undergrad lecture courses taught at Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션s.
It often seemed as if Dr. Smith카지노 게임 컬렉션s lectures were torn from that day카지노 게임 컬렉션s headlines, yet they were never a one-way flow of information; he cared about his students and respected their opinions. That regard was reciprocated. A 2002 Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션s Journal poll hailed History 273 as the 카지노 게임 컬렉션Best Class at Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션s카지노 게임 컬렉션 while lauding Dr. Smith as 카지노 게임 컬렉션Best Professor.카지노 게임 컬렉션 A perennial nominee for campus teaching awards, in 2004 he received the Frank Knox Award, Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션s top teaching honour bestowed by students. 카지노 게임 컬렉션Geoff Smith was known and loved for being entertaining at lectures and was generous with his time and energy that students so greedily sponge up,카지노 게임 컬렉션 says Mary O카지노 게임 컬렉션Riordan, MA카지노 게임 컬렉션83, Ed카지노 게임 컬렉션83, one of his former students.
Dr. Smith카지노 게임 컬렉션s sensitivities were integral to the person he was. After all, he came of age in the 1960s as a student at the 카지노게임사이트 of California카지노 게임 컬렉션s Santa Barbara and Berkeley campuses 카지노 게임 컬렉션 the latter renowned as a hotbed of counterculture and student protest.
In 1969, Dr. Smith카지노 게임 컬렉션s wife, Bonnie, was dismayed to learn that he had been offered a teaching job at Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션s and wanted them and their three children to move to Canada 카지노 게임 컬렉션for a couple of years.카지노 게임 컬렉션 As it happened, that planned brief sojourn would last a lifetime. 카지노 게임 컬렉션Being [at Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션s]카지노 게임 컬렉션 afforded me a degree of autonomy that I might not have had if I카지노 게임 컬렉션d stayed in the U.S.,카지노 게임 컬렉션 he once explained. 카지노 게임 컬렉션I always felt free to speak, write, and teach what I consider to be critically constructive readings of history 카지노 게임 컬렉션 America카지노 게임 컬렉션s historic strengths as well as its weaknesses.카지노 게임 컬렉션
Tall and athletic, Dr. Smith played Division One varsity basketball at Santa Barbara as an undergrad. The unfortunate legacy of that was the wonky knees that hobbled him in his later years and necessitated corrective surgeries. Despite this, Dr. Smith carried his 카지노 게임 컬렉션hoops addiction카지노 게임 컬렉션 to Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션s, serving a stint in the early 1990s as an assistant coach with the men카지노 게임 컬렉션s varsity squad and fundraising for both the men카지노 게임 컬렉션s and women카지노 게임 컬렉션s programs. And his boosterism didn카지노 게임 컬렉션t end there. As a regular attendee at Gaels home games for half a century, he never hesitated to venture courtside to act as a cheerleader when he felt the home side needed a lift.
Kingstonians were also familiar with Dr. Smith카지노 게임 컬렉션s unbridled enthusiasm and came to appreciate his commitment to progressive causes and peace activism. In the early 1990s, he had fun (and raised some hackles) as host of Mr. Fix-It, a weekly local cable television show that featured viewer call-ins, consumer advocacy, and 카지노 게임 컬렉션60s-style guerrilla street theatre à la Michael Moore.
As a retiree, Dr. Smith continued to write, took up knitting (crafting scarves for friends), played guitar, painted, mastered social media, and mounted a spirited one-man campaign to curb student binge drinking, especially during the annual Homecoming Weekend celebrations.
In his sunset years, a series of falls in 2019 resulted in a concussion, and a battle with depression 카지노 게임 컬렉션 an old nemesis that resurfaced after many years of dormancy. Both these afflictions took a toll on Dr. Smith카지노 게임 컬렉션s physical and emotional health. Fortunately for him, he endured with the love and support of his second wife, sociologist and feminist scholar Roberta Hamilton. The two met in 1983, moved in together in 1986, and after 25 years as a couple, they wed in 2011.
Sadly, Dr. Smith카지노 게임 컬렉션s planned sojourn of 카지노 게임 컬렉션a couple of years카지노 게임 컬렉션 at Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션s came to an abrupt and unexpected end April 1. Three days after undergoing successful bowel surgery at Kingston General Hospital, his heart suddenly stopped and could not be revived.
카지노 게임 컬렉션The only downside of knowing Dr. Smith is losing him,카지노 게임 컬렉션 says Mary O카지노 게임 컬렉션Riordan. 카지노 게임 컬렉션In retrospect, the best lesson he taught was to simply embrace life. If we ever prove to be the people that Geoff 카지노 게임 컬렉션 athlete, historian, and friend 카지노 게임 컬렉션 said we could become, then his spirit has moved on to the next generation.카지노 게임 컬렉션
Geoffrey S. Smith, professor emeritus, longtime faculty member of the Department of History and the School of Kinesiology and Health Studies, died in Kingston, April 1, aged 80.
Ken Cuthbertson was one of Geoff Smith카지노 게임 컬렉션s former students and protégés who, for more than 45 years, was lucky enough also to be one of his friends.
