Bruce Milward Smith ’67

Bruce Milward Smith ’67, M.D., of Nashville, Tennessee, died on January 5. He came to the college from Louisville, Kentucky, majored in biology as a premed, was a brother of Sigma Alpha Epsilon and Dragon. He was captain of the baseball team and a member of the 1965 and 1966 Ivy League Championship football teams. After graduation Bruce attended Harvard Medical School, completed his surgical residency at Duke—which included a two-year stint in the Navy—and in 1980 accepted a position on the faculty of Vanderbilt University. In 1989 Bruce joined the Air Force Medical Corps, from which he retired in 1993 with the rank of lieutenant colonel. He then moved to Washington, D.C., to become the chief of vascular surgery at the Washington Hospital Center, where he worked until his retirement in 2010. His close friend, college roommate, fraternity brother, and football teammate Wynn Mabry ’67 recalls Bruce as “the only freshman premed major I knew who was trying to play both college football and baseball. He had such a gritty determination, never wavering in his focus to master his personal frustration and anxiety about unmet goals or expectations.” Bruce moved back to Nashville in 2015 to be closer to his children and grandchildren. He is survived by his wife, Lisa; their children, Lauren and Joshua; first wife Louise; their children, Amory, Shepley, and Susannah; and five grandchildren.