Smith, Henry Lester, 1876-
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Long-time professor and administrator at the Indiana University School of Education.
In addition to teaching and other administrative positions, Henry Lester Smith served as the dean of the School of Education from 1916 until his retirement in 1946. While at IU, he also created the Bureau of Education Research and made it the means of disseminating the best in educational thinking to Indiana educators and others through regular publications of its Bulletins. Active in the community and state, Smith was a lifelong member of the Reformed Presbyterian Church and chair of the local Red Cross chapter for most of his professional life. As secretary-general of the World Federation of Education Associations, he was involved in drafting documents to create the educational branches of what would be UNESCO. Prof. Smith died in Bloomington, Ind., in 1963.
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