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- Cape Cod Times (Hyannis, MA)
January 16, 2011
YARMOUTHPORT — LaForest Clifford Smith Jr., age 87, died at home Jan. 13, 2011.
Mr. Smith was born in Pittsfield, graduating in 1943 from Pittsfield High School, where he captained the 1942 football team.
During World War II, he served most of his three and a half years in the Navy as an air to air gunnery instructor at the Pensacola Naval Air Station. He graduated from Springfield College in the class of 1950 with a B.S. degree in Group Psychology and Community Organization. From January 1950 to July 1986, he was a YMCA Professional serving YMCAs in Harrisburg and Camp Hill, Pa., Columbus and Newark, Ohio, and the Oranges, Maplewood and West Essex, N.J.
Mr. Smith is credited with having pioneered the West Shore YMCA, Camp Hill, PA YMCA, the Galion, Ohio, YMCA, and YMCA's in Maplewood, N.J., and in Newton, N.J. He retired in 1986 after serving for 18 years as president of the YMCAs of the Oranges, Maplewood and West Essex, N.J. Mr. Smith represented the Program Associates Speakers Bureau as a motivational speaker and seminar director.
He was a lover of outdoor activities involved with sailing a 23' sloop, skiing, camping on the family owned camp site at Lake Eaton, N.Y., and hiking in the Berkshires and Adirondacks. He was a member of Chequessett Golf Club.
He is survived by his wife Judith of Yarmouthport; son Peter and his wife Ilene of Old Bridge, N.J.; daughter Deborah Kuhns of Charlotte, N.C.; son David and his wife Catherine of Wingate, N.C.; granddaughter Elizabeth of Wingate, N.C.; sister Eileen Sprague of Yarmouthport; and several nieces and nephews.
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1924 - 2011 (86 years)
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