1934
Born to Kenneth Warren Smith DVM and Nina Lou (Sykes) Smith in Logan, UT.
1956
Earns a Bachelor of Science from the University of Iowa.
1958
Marries Nancy Chesterman.
1959
Earns a Doctor of Medicine from the University of Iowa.
1959
Serves as an intern at Colorado General Hospital in Denver.
1960
Is a pathology resident at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics in Iowa City through 1965.
1965
Serves as lieutenant commander of the US Naval Hospital in Chelsea, MA, through 1967.
1967
Teaches as an assistant professor of pathology at the University of Vermont in Burlington.
1970
Teaches as a professor of pathology at Indiana University, now Indiana University–Purdue University Indianapolis, through June 1998.
1977
Receives the Outstanding Contribution to Clinical Microbiology Award from the South Central Association of Clinical Microbiology.
1981
Serves as chairman of the microbiology resource committee of the College of American Pathologists through 1985.
1992
Serves as the chairman of the department of pathology and laboratory medicine at Indiana University in Indianapolis through June 1998.
1997
Is named the Nordschow Professor of Laboratory Medicine at Indiana University, Indianapolis.
1998
Serves as a liaison for the AMPATH Program at the Moi University School of Medicine in Kenya and continues to do so.
1998
Joins Board of Directors of Indiana Medical History Museum and continues to do so.
2019
Earns the Ritchey Emeriti Faculty Service Award.