Captain Smith to Head Church Army
Diocesan Press Service. September 1, 1968 [68-8]
NEW YORK, N. Y. -- The Church Army, an organization of lay evangelists, recently chose a new national director, Captain Charlie J. Smith.
Captain Smith, who has already assumed the duties of his new office, comes to Church Army headquarters in Brooklyn from Dallas. His formal installation will be in the early Fall.
While in Dallas, Captain Smith worked in South Dallas and West Dallas and was Evangelist in charge of St. Augustine's Episcopal Mission and headmaster of its day school. His concern with community problems led to his involvement in a number of civic organizations.
He was chairman of the Dallas West Service Organization; board member of FUSE, a West Dallas community organization; board member of the Dallas Theatre Center; board member of Opportunities Industrialization Center; member of the Community Council of Greater Dallas; a member of the NAACP and the Negro Chamber of Commerce; and a member of the Welfare Committee for Goals for Dallas.
Born in West Helena, Ark., Captain Smith spent his school years in Detroit and attended Wayne State University and the Detroit Institute of Technology. He is married to the former Edna Ruth Dixon of Chicago. They have three children: Cydya Joyce, Franchesca Arleese and Karvyn Earl.