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Vincent G. Rioux UCB BA '89
August 09, 2025 | Olympia


Berkeley, California
1930 - 2019
John Masson Smith, Jr.
Feb. 13, 1930 - July 24, 2019
John Masson Smith, Jr. was born in 1930 in Massachusetts. He graduated from Harvard where he also met and married his wife, Grace. He served in the army for three years before obtaining his PhD in Near Eastern History at Columbia...Read More
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Vincent G. Rioux UCB BA '89
August 09, 2025 | Olympia
We will miss him. So sorry to hear of his passing. Grace: how can we call you?
April 07, 2020
Amazing Guy, I learned much from him.
Paul D Buell
January 04, 2020 | SEATTLE, WA
John and Pax are definitely in Heaven reliving their Puteny and Harvard days. John was awesome. RIP John
August 27, 2019
It was the good luck of my family to be a neighbor of John Smith and his wife, Grace, for nearly 35 years. I will remember John as an old-school gentleman,who could make a bow-tie look cool and would tip his hat in greeting a lady. He was also the thoughtful and genial host of innumerable neighborhood gatherings at their spacious home on Scenic, filled with the fascinating objects collected during their lifetime of often exotic travel.
John and I shared one special passion:...
Carole Berger
August 16, 2019 | Berkeley, CA