Shirley W. Smith

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Shirley Wheeler Smith (born May 3, 1875 in Nashville , Michigan , † February 16, 1959 ) was Vice President of the University of Michigan . As a writer , he was once nominated for an Oscar in the Best Original Story category.

Life

Shirley W. Smith was in Nashville in the US state Michigan born of Judge Clement Smith. He graduated from Hastings High School at age 15 and graduated from university in 1897. In 1900 he received the Master of Arts.

From 1898 Smith taught English at the University of Michigan . From 1901 to 1904 he worked as the general secretary of the University of Michigan alumni network. He then spent four years in Philadelphia , where he worked in the presidential office of a life insurance company. In 1908 he returned to the University of Michigan, became secretary and from 1930 also vice president until he retired in 1945. In retirement, Smith wrote the biographies of James B. Angell and Harry B. Hutchins, who were presidents of the University of Michigan.

At the Oscar ceremony in 1950 Shirley W. Smith was with Valentine Davies in the category Best Original story nominated for the by Lloyd Bacon staged sports movie , comedy, It Happens Every Spring (1949). The film is based on a short story by Smith, which he wrote when he was 48, which was published in the Michigan Alumnus in the summer of 1946 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Shirley W. Smith at annarborrotary.org
  2. ↑ American Film Institute : It Happens Every Spring , accessed April 4, 2014.
personal data
SURNAME Smith, Shirley W.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Smith, Shirley Wheeler (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American author, Vice President of the University of Michigan
DATE OF BIRTH May 3, 1875
PLACE OF BIRTH Nashville , Michigan , United States
DATE OF DEATH February 16, 1959