- Frank Smeal
Frank Paul Smeal (
August 7 ,1918 -April 8 ,2003 ) was a partner of theGoldman Sachs Group of New York City.A limited partner of Goldman, Sachs & Co., Mr. Smeal spent his 38-year career on Wall Street as an expert in the municipal bond market. As executive vice president and treasurer at Morgan Guaranty Trust co., he was instrumental in counseling New York City through its 1975-76 fiscal crisis. He became a partner and member of the senior management committee of Goldman Sachs in 1977 and retired in 1985.
Mr. Smeal was born in
Sykesville, Pennsylvania in rural Jefferson County, the son of acoal miner, and credited his mother, Mary, for inspiring him to seek a college degree. It took five years of working part-time as a "soda jerk " and amortgage on his parents' home before he could achieve his goal of a college education. To get there, he had to hitchhike five miles a day. A few years ago he said he went to college to stay out of the mines where his father had worked. "That's why Penn State is my first love after my wife and family. It gave me the education I needed."His philanthropic support of Penn State also extended to endowing a fellowship in business administration, a faculty chair in literary theory and comparative criticism, a creative writing award and a graduate assistantship in
botany and plant pathology. In 1989, he and his wife, Mary Jean, donated $10 million toPennsylvania State University , which renamed theSmeal College of Business in their honor.He died Tuesday, April 8, 2003, after a long illness, at the age of 84.
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* [http://www.collegian.psu.edu/archive/2003/04/04-10-03tdc/04-10-03dnews-01.asp Obituary from The Daily Collegian]
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