Paul Clay SmithPaul Clay Smith was born April 3rd, 1934, to Robert Smith and Martha Jane Farmer Smith at the family home on Smith Ridge, Bradshaw, Kentucky. He was one of a large Appalachian family: ten brothers and one sister. Childhood was full of animals, farmin life and uneven schooling. He received his veterinary degree on a sheepskin (!) from Auburn Polytechnical Institute (Auburn University) in 1959. After a brief private practice, he was drafted into the Army, and the family moved to Bangkok, Thailand for three years. His service there was both military and missionary. On returning to the USA the family moved to Iowa, and then to Auburn again, where he worked in the veterinary school for many years. In his early retirement he served as a two-year missions volunteer in Tanzania and Kenya, as faculty at the St. George's University Veterinary School in Grenada, and as a consultant and volunteer in missions to over 120 countries. He and his second wife currently reside in Hoschton, GA. Read More Read Less