Few Bowdoin College professors were as stimulating, challenging, and intellectually broad and deep as Kidder Smith. As the son of famed architecture historian and critic G.E. Kidder Smith, Kidder Jr. certainly inherited his father's academic motivation, and showed it in his professorship, his lectures, his publications on Asian history, philosophy and culture, and his expansion of Bowdoin's Asian Studies Program, made possible by a grant from the Pew Charitable Trusts. He was very supportive of his students while challenging us to outdo ourselves, keeping us reading and writing far beyond what other Bowdoin professors assigned, and I learned a lot about Chinese thought from him beyond the Confucianism and Taoism I had learned of in eighth grade. Kidder asked that the following be included in his Bowdoin obituary: “One thing Kidder was most proud of is that the bookstore knew him as the first professor to get his book orders in, every semester.” I was proud of him for far more than that. Thank you, Kidder, for all your wisdom, challenge, and support. Rest in peace