Page 8 - Edgar Smith News Today

<p>"Dr. Smith was a Yale institution. He arrived on campus as a freshman in 1950, received his doctorate from the university in 1961, and, aside from a short teaching stint at Duke, never left."</p>

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Gaddis Smith, a Yale historian who taught generations of policymakers and politicians the finer points of U.S. foreign policy and who, during the 1970s and ’80s, helped the university navigate between its desire to modernize and the powerful alumni who opposed such change, died Dec. 2 at his home in New Haven, Connecticut. He was 89.

One of his students became a president, another an actress. He also helped the university modernize during the 1970s and ’80s.

Journalists are sadly susceptible to charismatic convicts, from Adnan Syed to Leonard Peltier.

Smith, a hedge fund and U.S. equity expert, has been a critical part of the University of Southern California’s endowment.

Edgar Smith has joined the organization from the endowment at the University of Southern California.

Former USC Endowment managing director Edgar Smith named CIO of Directors Guild of America-Producer Pension and Health Plans.

Ottawa-raised author and columnist Sarah Weinman talks with Shelagh Rogers about her latest true crime book, Scoundrel.

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