Letchfield Smith Macauley

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Biografie:
MACAULEY LETCHFIELD SMITH (1905-1993)

Macauley Letchfield Smith wurde am 10. März 1905 in Louisville, Kentucky, geboren und starb am 23. August 1993. Er schloss die Philips Academy Andover ab und erhielt Abschlüsse von Yale und der Harvard Law School. Er war Mitglied des US-amerikanischen Leichtathletikteams bei den Olympischen Spielen 1928. Wir heirateten im Jahr 1930. Von 1942 bis 1946 war er Offizier in der Air Force und beendete seine Dienstzeit als Oberstleutnant. Von 1952 bis 1963 und erneut von 1970 bis 1975 diente er als Richter am Jefferson Circuit Court Chancery Branch.
Macauley liebte Berge zum Klettern, die Tetons, Waldspaziergänge, die Smoky Mountains, Landstraßen, Irland, romanische Kirchen, Frankreich. Seine europäischen Klettertouren unternahm er in der Schweiz mit seiner Schwester Ann Smith Monks. Mit Jim Cooley kletterte er 1932 in den Tetons. Später kletterte er ebenfalls in den Tetons, mit Bill House, Bob Bates und meiner Schwester Betsy Cowles Partridge, mit der er einen der frühen Aufstiege am Ostgrat machte, sowie mit Paul Petzoldt und Glenn Exum.

Quelle: American Alpine Club 1995, Volume 69, Issue 37, Seite

Macauley Letchfield Smith was born in Louisville, Kentucky on March 10, 1905 and died on August 23, 1993. He graduated from Philips Academy Andover and received degrees from Yale and from the Harvard Law School. He was a member of the United States Track Team in the Olympics in 1928. We were married in 1930. From 1942 to 1946, he was an officer in the Air Force, ending as Lieutenant Colonel. He served as a judge in the Jefferson Circuit Court Chancery Branch from 1952 to 1963 and again from 1970 to 1975.

Macauley loved mountains to climb, the Tetons, woodland walks, the Smokies, country roads, Ireland, Romanesque churches, France. His European climbing was in Switzerland with his sister Ann Smith Monks. With Jim Cooley, he climbed in the Tetons in 1932. Later, he climbed also in the Tetons, with Bill House, Bob Bates and my sister Betsy Cowles Partridge, with whom he made one of the early ascents of the east ridge, and with Paul Petzoldt and Glenn Exum.

He loved his friends, he loved his dogs; high marks for dogs, they don’t talk. He loved chamber music before his ears failed him. He was renowned for his gifts of brown-bagged mushrooms, delivered at doorsteps throughout the county with devoted regularity. We acquired our farm, Blackacre, in 1950. This increasingly served as a haven for musicians on their arduous concert circuits. As the land became more beautiful, we felt ourselves stewards, not owners of this property. Macauley walked at Blackacre, sometimes twice a day, before his legs gave out. These “trudges,” as he called them, were essential to Macauley’s spirit during his last years.

Emilie Strong Smith
Quelle: American Alpine Club 1995, Volume 69, Issue 37, Seite

Geboren am:
10.03.1905
Gestorben am:
23.08.1993