Dale R. Smith 1415 Edinburgh Drive Troy, OH 45373 937-552-7392/937-829-6674 (cell) drma07@woh.rr.com Spouse:
Mary Alice Showalter Smith ‘65
Children:
Gregory, Alicia and Matthew Barnishin
Grandchildren:
Mya, Aidan and Max Barnishin
Freshman orientation was hosted by our student senate in 1963, and I noticed an attractive registered nurse working one of our tables. Within a week, we found ourselves in the same sociology class, and we all needed a project for the term. I wanted to determine if Westerville needed a health care facility and I asked Mary Alice Showalter if she would be interested in working on the project with me. She gladly accepted, and within a few days, I asked her to the Wittenberg football game and a concert by The Lettermen. Mary Alice and I were married in June 1965, and she has been a perfect helpmate and partner for nearly 49 years of marriage and ministry. After graduating from Otterbein with a B.A. in psychology, I continued my education at United Theological Seminary, and received my master’s of divinity degree in 1968, after completing an enlightening year of internship at Calvary Evangelical United Brethren Church in Lemoyne, PA. The class of ‘68 was the first class to graduate and be ordained in the new United Methodist Church. While in seminary, I worked for the admissions office at Otterbein in the Dayton and tri-state area, as well as being a youth and assistant pastor in a Congregational United Church of Christ, and a trained attendant at local hospitals. My first appointments in PA, were as an associate pastor in Garden City and pastor of Center Avenue Church in Pitcairn. During these years, I served as a district youth director, advisor to the conference council on youth ministries, and ws one of the original designers of the ecumenical Monroeville Mall Ministry, a listening, caring and referral ministry which still functions today. It was also during these years that I served as a volunteer firefighter, drove a pumper truck, was the company chaplain, working in Boy Scouting and was appointed a Grand Chaplain for the Grade Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons of Pennsylvania. I was appointed pastor of the Baden Church in 1978, and along with developing a community food cupboard, I served as president of the board of directors for Camp Allegheny, along with numerous district and conference boards, commissions and task groups, including the Hospice team of Sewickley Valley Hospital and Beaver Valley.