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The Honolulu Advertiser
Posted on: Monday, March 19, 2001


Bulletin columnist in critical condition

By Karen Blakeman
Advertiser Staff Writer

Longtime newspaper journalist Adam A. "Bud" Smyser was in critical condition last night at the Queen's Medical Center after suffering a fall at his home Saturday morning.

Dee Smyser, his wife, said her husband is not expected to live. She, Smyser's son Avery, his daughter Heidi and his stepdaughter Lauri Gorelangton have stayed at Smyser's bedside.

Smyser, 80, has worked at the Honolulu Star-Bulletin since 1946, when he joined the staff "right out of the Navy,'' his wife said. The two met at the newspaper that year. They were married 17 years ago, after the death of Smyser's first wife, longtime television personality Betty Smyser.

Smyser is a well-respected newspaperman. Among other honors, his lifelong contributions to the community through his work at the Star-Bulletin were recognized when the Honpa Hongwanji Mission of Hawai'i named him a "Living Treasure of Hawaii" in 1999.

His editorials and columns as a contributing editor helped developed public policy that benefited the state, a Hongwanji spokesman said.