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Smith -- Candace Carstens Smith, 100, an Albuquerque resident for 60 years, died Sunday, September 6, 1998, at the Montebello Retirement Community. Wife of the late Dane F. Smith, Professor of English, for whom the new classroom building at the University of New Mexico is named, she was the daughter of the founder of the Child Welfare League of America and the mother of both the current United States Ambassador to the Republic of Senegal and a teacher in APS. Born in Marshalltown, IA, during the year of the Spanish American War, Mrs. Smith attended Grinell College, graduated from Smith College in 1921, and , after working as a secretary and teacher, earned a Ph.D., in history in 1937 from Radcliffe College, now part of Harvard University. That year she married Professor Dane Smith and moved into the home they had built in"faculty row" on Roma Avenue, where she remained after her husband's death in 1968 until the residence was torn down in 1996 to make way for the new classroom building. She assisted Professor Smith in his research and writing and was largely responsible for the posthumous publication of his last book, Plays about the Theaters, Volume II. Mrs. Smith was a longtime member of the Tuesday Literary Club. She is survived by a daughter, Mary Candace Mize of Albuquerque; a son, Ambassador Dane F. Smith, Jr.; and four grandchildren. Memorial services will be held on Sunday, September 27, 1998, details to follow. French Mortuary, 1111 University Blvd. NE
        Published on: Fri September 11, 1998