Assistant Air Force Secretary

DAVID S. SMITH '39, shown being sworn in by Secretary of the Air Force Harold E. Talbott, on October 19 assumed the post of Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Manpower and Personnel, to which he had been appointed by President Eisenhower. .A resident of Greenwich, Conn., he had been serving in Washington as Special Assistant to the Under Secretary of State for Administration.

Since 1950 Mr. Smith has been a partner in the New York law firm of Chapman, Bryson, Walsh & O'Connell. He has been active in Republican affairs for several years. He was founder, president and later chairman of the board of the Greenwich Young Republican Club, and a member of the board of governors of the New York Young Republican Club.

Elected to Phi Beta Kappa at Dartmouth, David Smith studied for a year at the Sorbonne in Paris and in 1942 received the LL.B. degree from Columbia Law School. During the war he spent three and a half years with the Navy in the Pacific. Married to the former June Noble of New York, he has three sons.