Stanley Charles Smoyer died at his home in Princeton, NJ, on December 15. He was 98. Born and raised in Akron, OH, Mr. Smoyer graduated from Mercersburg Academy in 1930; Dartmouth College, Phi Beta Kappa, in 1934; and Michigan Law School in 1937. He returned to Akron to work in his father's and uncle's law firm until 1942 when he moved to Washington, DC, to join the legal staff of the War Production Board. In 1946 the pharmaceutical firm Johnson & Johnson, New Brunswick, NJ, hired him as a member of its legal office. He was associate general counsel for the corporation at the time of his retirement in 1974.

Mr. Smoyer and Barbara Brooks, also an Akron native, were married in 1940. She died in 1996. He is survived by his wife Marjorie Read, whom he married in 1997.

Mr. Smoyer was involved in the Princeton community from the moment he moved there with his family in 1946. He was an active volunteer in municipal government, serving on the Township town council, including one year as mayor, and in several other local organizations, including two Township/Borough Consolidation Committees. He was a driving force in the founding and continuation of the Greater Princeton Area Community Foundation; a leader of the board of the Princeton branch of Planned Parenthood and an active trustee of Princeton Day School, the successor to the schools his children attended. His wife Barbara and he promoted recreational opportunities for all Princeton residents. After her death, he funded the Barbara Smoyer Memorial Field in Princeton. He enjoyed contributing generously his time and his good fortune to these community organizations as well as many others.

Mr. Smoyer was an active member of Pretty Brook Tennis Club, Springdale Golf Club and The Nassau Club. He loved travelling and was pleased to have visited each of the seven continents and, by his count, over 60 countries.

Mr. Smoyer was a Dartmouth man, through and through. He was active through service within his class of 1934, on the Alumni Council, and as Chairman of the Trustees' Committee on Equal Opportunity. He was proud of the Smoyer/Brooks connection to the College, which included a brother, a brother-in-law, a nephew, and his two sons as Dartmouth alumni.

Mr. Smoyer believed in the value of athletic competition. As an avid swimmer, tennis player, golfer, and just about anything else that might work up a sweat, he was an exemplary sportsman in very way. Hoping to pass this love on to others, he was a generous donor to soccer fields and tennis courts at Mercersburg, Princeton Day School, Phillips Academy, the town of Princeton, and, especially, Dartmouth.

Mr. Smoyer will be remembered for his sense of balance and direction. He had firm ideas of where things should be going and was simultaneously open to a range of ideas on how to get there.

In addition to his wife, he is survived by two children, Nancy of Fairbanks, AK and David of Boston and his wife Mary, three grandchildren and seven great grandchildren; step children, Linda Arnold and her husband Robert, Jim Read and his wife Patty, James Neilsen and his wife Susan, and Donna Read, eight step grandchildren and three step great grandchildren. Two of his children predeceased him: Janet, who died in 1950, and Bill, a Marine who died in Vietnam in 1968.

A memorial service will be held at 11:00 AM on Monday, December 20, 2010 at the Nassau Presbyterian Church, 61 Nassau Street, Princeton, NJ.

Memorial gifts in lieu of flowers may be made to Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H. 03755 or The Planned Parenthood Association of the Mercer Area, 437 East State Street, Trenton, NJ 08608.