A memorial service for Laboratory employee Hastings Smith is at 4:30 this afternoon in First United Methodist Church in Los Alamos. Smith, 59, died April 17, after a brief cardiac illness. He was a member of Safeguards Science and Technology (NIS-5) at the time of his death. A reception will follow the service in Fellowship Hall. In lieu of flowers, the family suggests memorial contributions to the Sangre de Cristo Chorale, 100 Venado, Los Alamos, N.M. 87544.
Smith attended Purdue University to pursue his undergraduate and doctorate degrees in nuclear physics. Following a postdoctorate at the then-Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory's Omega Site, he joined the physics faculty at Indiana University in Bloomington. In 1978 he returned to Los Alamos to work in nuclear safeguards and nonproliferation programs.
Most recently, he was a frequent traveler to Russia and was the project leader for Russian Nuclear Programs at the Lab.
He is survived by his widow Edith Elaine Smith, son Christopher Hastings and wife Natalie Kay of Los Alamos, daughter Angela Lynn and husband Mark Wayne Morris, and son Timothy Robert of Albuquerque.