{"id":3127056,"date":"2022-01-01T00:15:00","date_gmt":"2022-01-01T05:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.friendsjournal.org\/robert-lawrence-smith\/"},"modified":"2025-10-12T07:45:05","modified_gmt":"2025-10-12T11:45:05","slug":"robert-lawrence-smith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.friendsjournal.org\/es\/robert-lawrence-smith\/","title":{"rendered":"Robert Lawrence Smith"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Smith<\/strong>\u2014Robert Lawrence Smith, de 96 a\u00f1os, falleci\u00f3 en paz el 24 de mayo de 2021 en su casa de Bethesda, Md. Nacido en 1924, Bob fue cu\u00e1quero por nacimiento y se gradu\u00f3 en la Moorestown Friends School en Nueva Jersey. Tras matricularse en la Universidad de Harvard, pronto sinti\u00f3 el llamado a alistarse en el ej\u00e9rcito durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial, sirviendo durante tres a\u00f1os y luchando en la Batalla de las Ardenas. Conoci\u00f3 a su futura esposa, Eliza, en un campo de trabajo del Comit\u00e9 de Servicio de los Amigos Americanos en M\u00e9xico, y se casaron en 1948. Finalmente, obtuvo una licenciatura en filosof\u00eda de la Universidad de California, Berkeley en 1949 y una maestr\u00eda en ingl\u00e9s de la Universidad de Columbia en 1952.    <\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bob lleg\u00f3 a Sidwell Friends School en 1965 procedente de la Universidad de Columbia, donde era subdecano y, antes de eso, secretario adjunto. Fue director de Sidwell desde 1965 hasta 1978 y fideicomisario desde 2000 hasta 2008. Durante su mandato como director, fortaleci\u00f3 los cimientos del cuaquerismo, el compromiso c\u00edvico y el servicio comunitario. \u00c9l y Eliza, que falleci\u00f3 en 2009, fueron administradores notables de la escuela y compartieron su sentido de la responsabilidad con sus hijos: Katie fue fideicomisaria de 1993 a 2001 y de 2008 a 2016, y Geoff es actualmente fideicomisario.   <\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bob fue un l\u00edder transformador que vio a la escuela atravesar una \u00e9poca de enormes cambios en el pa\u00eds. Al examinar las pr\u00e1cticas y abordar las carencias de la escuela, trat\u00f3 de seguir los principios de igualdad racial y de g\u00e9nero, justicia social y no violencia. Desde el principio, Bob se comprometi\u00f3 a aumentar la matriculaci\u00f3n de estudiantes negros en Sidwell Friends. Tuvo el honor de presidir la graduaci\u00f3n de los primeros alumnos afroamericanos de la escuela en 1967, y continu\u00f3 trabajando en la ampliaci\u00f3n de las estrategias de contrataci\u00f3n y ayuda financiera para promover este objetivo. Bob tambi\u00e9n trabaj\u00f3 para eliminar los \u00faltimos vestigios de cuotas para estudiantes jud\u00edos y foment\u00f3 la elecci\u00f3n del primer fideicomisario jud\u00edo de la escuela.    <\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Durante su mandato como director, reforz\u00f3 la pr\u00e1ctica cu\u00e1quera del silencio reflexivo y exigi\u00f3 tiempo durante la semana acad\u00e9mica para el Meeting de adoraci\u00f3n para todos los estudiantes. Bob cre\u00eda firmemente que los estudiantes deb\u00edan participar en la comunidad circundante de D.C. En 1967, comenz\u00f3 el Friends Morgan Summer Project, que comenz\u00f3 como un programa de enriquecimiento cultural con la escuela p\u00fablica de primaria Morgan. Esto condujo a m\u00e1s colaboraciones con otras escuelas de D.C. Finalmente, Bob estableci\u00f3 el programa Community Link, que describi\u00f3 a la Junta como \u201cla creaci\u00f3n de oportunidades extracurriculares para participar en actividades significativas, para servir a los dem\u00e1s y para intentar acercar la realidad y el aprendizaje\u00bb.    <\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bob fue amado por generaciones de profesores, estudiantes, padres y ex alumnos de Sidwell Friends por construir un sentido de comunidad y prop\u00f3sito. La sala Robert L. Smith Meeting Room ha sido dedicada dos veces: una en 1982 (en el espacio actualmente conocido como el Teatro Rosenberg), y otra vez en 2011 (en su ubicaci\u00f3n actual). Su libro de 1998, <g id=\"gid_0\">A Quaker Book of Wisdom: Life Lessons in Simplicity, Service, and Common Sense<\/g>, se sigue distribuyendo y est\u00e1 disponible para los miembros de la comunidad de Sidwell. El a\u00f1o pasado, la escuela estableci\u00f3 el Programa de Becas Familiares Robert L. 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