PASSINGS
Kenneth O. Smith; Headed USC’s Sports Information Program
Kenneth Owler Smith, 67, director of the Sports Information Program at USC and a former acting director of that university’s School of Journalism. A former journalist and TV producer, Smith was credited with establishing the first sports information program in the country leading to a degree. In Pasadena on Thursday of bladder cancer.
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