Biography of A.W. Smith
Torrington High School Music Teacher - 1927-1945

Mr. Smith attended Shelter Island, Long Island, schools until  the start of his college career at Cornell University. He received a Master of Arts degree and later pursued his studies at Columbia University and the National Music Camp in Interlocken, Michigan.

After teaching in Elizabeth, New Jersey, Huntington High School and Stony Brook School for Boys in Long Island, Mr. Smith spent seventeen years at Torrington High School.  Among the many things which Mr. Smith did to further our school's orchestra, he directed nine annual concerts - all successes.

He is now a teacher at Shelter Island High and is there connected with the school orchestra.

Taken from The X-Ray Torrington High School Newspaper - January 18, 1946