John Edwin Smylie

Background

Smylie, John Edwin was born on March 11, 1928 in Memphis, Tennessee, United States. Son of Theodore Shaw and Mildred Margaret (Hutchinson) Smylie.

Education

Bachelor, Washington University, St. Louis, 1949. Bachelor's Degree, Princeton Theological Seminary, 1952. Doctor of Philosophy, Princeton Theological Seminary, 1959.

Postgraduate, Cambridge University, England, 1953.

Career

Instructor, then assistant professor, Princeton (New Jersey) Theological Seminary, 1955-1962; associate professor, chaplain, Occidental College, Los Angeles, 1962-1967; president, Queens College, Charlotte, North Carolina, 1967-1974; executive vice president, Cardinal Associations, Charlotte, 1974-1978; vice president, Automated Training, Inc., Charlotte, 1978-1986; president, Smylie Ednl. Enterprises, Charlotte, since 1980. Visiting lecturer University of Southern California, Los Angeles, 1965, Claremont (California) School Theology, 1967.

Member Presbyteries of St. Louis, Presbyteries of Southern California, Presbyteries of Charlotte, 1952-1995.

Achievements

• John Edwin Smylie has been listed as a noteworthy Education executive by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Board directors Charlotte Chamber of Commerce, 1973, Social Planning Council, 1973. President Southern Association Colleges Women, 1970—1971. Founder, member committee Coalition Women's Colleges, 1972—1974.

Member of Old Catawba Club, Charlotte City Club, Newcomen, Rotary (board directors Charlotte club 1973).

Interests

• Avocations: family history, travel, photography.

Connections

Married Cornelia Crawford Claxton, September 11, 1954. Children: Lydia Smylie Bianchi, Jonathan Claxton, David Hutchinson.

Father:

Theodore Shaw Smylie

Mother:

Mildred Margaret (Hutchinson) Smylie

Spouse:

Cornelia Crawford Claxton

child:

David Hutchinson Smylie

child:

Lydia Smylie Bianchi Smylie

child:

Jonathan Claxton Smylie