Fred Smith, former RB teacher, dies at 92 - Riverside-Brookfield Landmark

Fred Smith, former RB teacher, dies at 92 - Riverside-Brookfield Landmark

Fred Smith, a North Riverside resident who taught at Riverside Brookfield High School for nearly 40 years, died on May 21. He was 92. Smith worked as a sociology teacher at the high school from 1951 to 1989, when the course was a graduation requirement, said Jan Goldberg, a retired RB teacher who lives in Riverside. Goldberg described Smith as one of her mentors in RB’s humanities department, where she worked from 1976 to 2012 teaching American …