Background
Smith, Henry Lee was born on July 11, 1913 in Morristown, New Jersey, United States. Son of Henry Lee and Elise Garr (Henry) Smith.
Smith, Henry Lee was born on July 11, 1913 in Morristown, New Jersey, United States. Son of Henry Lee and Elise Garr (Henry) Smith.
Bachelor of Arts summa cum laude, Princeton, 1935, Master of Arts, 1937, Doctor of Philosophy, 1938. Doctor of Letters, Wagner College, Staten Island, 1961.
English, Barnard College, Columbia, 1938-1940. Instructor English, Brown University, 1940-1942. Conductor program Where Are You From, radio station WOR, 1939-1941.
Assistant chief division training service Department State, 1946-1947, assistant director Foreign Service Institute, director, professor linguistics school languages and linguistics Foreign Service Institute, 1947-1953, dean school languages, 1955-1956, professor linguistics and English, State University New York at Buffalo, 1956, acting director program in linguistics, 1967-1968, department chairman anthropology, 1956-1965.
Visiting professor linguistics U. State New York, 1949, 61, director communications workshop, 1950, 61. Visiting professor Linguistic Institute, Indiana University, 1951.
Visiting professor linguistics University of Pennsylvania, 1965-1966. Advising committee Fulbright and Smith-Mundt applicants English, 1953-1957.
Inglis lecturer Harvard, 1954.
Member graduate advisory council Princeton University Department Oriental Studies, 1961-1970. Served as major, education branch, information and education division, Army of the United States, 1942-1945. Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (member of council), American Anthropological Association (delegate to division anthropology and psychology National Research Council and National Academy Science 1960-1963).
Member Washington Academy Science, Linguistic Society American (Executive Committee 1960-1963, 69), New York Council Teachers English (Chairman of Commission linguistics 1961-1966), Society General Semantics, Anthropological Society Washington, American Council Learned Societies
(committee language program 1946-1959), Society Colonial Wars, South.R., Phi Beta Kappa. Clubs: Saturn, Buffalo Canoe (Buffalo).
Married Virginia von Wodtke, August 10, 1946. Children: Heather, Marshall, Randolph, Letitia.