Honoring Her Legacy

Edith Renfrow on Commencement Day, June 1937. Photo courtesy of Edith Renfrow Smith.

Edith Renfrow Smith, June 2021. Photo courtesy of Tamara Beauboeuf.

Edith Renfrow Smith, DHL '19, May 2019. Photo courtesy of Justin Hayworth, Grinnell College.

Edith Renfrow Smith, 111th birthday, July 14, 2024. Photo courtesy of Valeriya Woodard.

Edith Renfrow Smith '37, DHL '19 Memorial Fund

In loving memory of Edith Renfrow Smith ’37, DHL ’19 — educational groundbreaker, community builder, and lifelong Grinnellian — Grinnell College invites all who were touched by her extraordinary life to honor her legacy. Gifts made in her memory will be collected and directed toward scholarship support, helping future generations of Grinnell College students pursue the education she so deeply believed in. Memorial gifts may be made at https://give.grinnell.edu/renfrowsmith or by calling the Grinnell College Office of Development and Alumni Relations at 1-866-850-1846.

“If you have an education, no one can take that education away from you.”

Edith Renfrow Smith, panel in Renfrow Hall loggia, Grinnell College