Smith, Toni Marilyn

1937 - 2004  (67 years)

• Name	Smith, Toni Marilyn  [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33]
  Birth	19 Feb 1937	Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, USA   [1, 3]
  	or in Orange, Essex, NJ
  Gender	Female
  Obituary	New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
  	Yale Daily News 2025- Former first lady of Yale passes away
  	20251124GHLn- Former first lady of Yale passes away Patrick D. Ward 12:00 am, Sep 23, 2004 Toni Giamatti DRA ’60 was an actress, a mother, and the wife to former Yale President A. Bartlett Giamatti. But what she is perhaps best remembered for is her passion in the classroom during her tenure of more than 20 years at the Hopkins School in New Haven. She died on Saturday, and a private funeral was held for her, Yale spokeswoman Helaine Klasky said. “Mrs. Giamatti had a passion for literature, which she so beautifully communicated to her many students at Hopkins — students who remained under her wise guidance even beyond their college years,” Regina Starolis, executive assistant to the president, said in an e-mail. Starolis, who said she was a personal friend of Giamatti, has worked in the office of the Yale president since before Giamatti’s husband assumed his post there. Friends said Toni Giamatti was committed to her husband’s career at Yale, where he served as master of Ezra Stiles College before he was appointed president. After he left the University, he served as commissioner of Major League Baseball. He died in 1989. In the course of her husband’s employment at the University, Giamatti was very supportive, the “foremost first lady of Yale,” Timothy Dwight Master Robert Thompson said in an e-mail. “I remember her graciousness, her charm, her interest in what we were doing and what we ideally hoped yet to do,” he said. Former coworkers and former students alike miss her memorable teaching at the Hopkins School, Head of School Barbara Riley said. “She was best known for the way she would bring literature, theater, history, the media — especially journalism — and politics into the classroom,” Riley said. “She was well-liked, opinionated, broadly educated, with a straightforward manner that had so much appeal to it.” Riley recounted the words of a former student who, on hearing of Giamatti’s death, said she was the teacher she will remember most throughout her education, as the student felt her classes were almost more about life than about what the class was reading. Giamatti’s teaching communicated not just information, but also love, Directed Studies professor Jane Levin, the mother of three of Giamatti’s former students, said in an e-mail. “Toni loved literature,” Levin said. “While teaching her students how to read a work of literature and how to write a five-page essay, she was also showing them this love.” In the classroom and beyond, a passion for the arts and literature was present in nearly all Giamatti did, from raising her children to performing Shakespeare in her classroom. “She was a force in bringing culture to Yale and the New Haven community,” Thompson said. She is survived by three children: two sons, Marcus and Paul, and a daughter, Elena Giamatti-Rossman. Social and Policy Studies-Sky-Animal Ethics Most Read Leo Nyberg Yale, Harvard alumni hosting tailgate for academic freedom at The Game The Yale Daily News FOOTBALL: Yale wins The Game for fourth year in a row Sullivan Ho ‘That’s me, I won’: Rhodes Scholar picks reflect on Yale journeys Henry Liu At changing law library, internal tensions prompted workplace review Anayah Accilien First-year ‘Yinfluencers’ provide a lens into Yale on social media YALE DAILY NEWS PUBLISHING CO., INC. 202 York Street, New Haven, CT 06511 | (203) 432-2400 Editorial: (203) 432-2418 | editor@yaledailynews.com Business: (203) 432-2424 | business@yaledailynews.com ABOUT US | SEND A TIP SUBMIT A LETTER | Legal © Yale Daily News 2025 https://yaledailynews.com/blog/2004/09/23/former-first-lady-of-yale-passes-away/
  FSID	9V39-24B
  Residence	Between 1950 and 1989	Plainfield, Union, New Jersey, USA
  Death	18 Sep 2004	Hamden, New Haven, Connecticut, USA   [1]
  	age 67
  Person ID	I111166	WETZEL-SPRING

  
  

  Father	Smith, Abram Edward,   b. 16 Mar 1907, Weston, Somerset, New Jersey, USA d. 13 Sep 2004, Summit, Union, New Jersey, USA (Age 97 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Mother	Brown, Kathryn E.
  Relationship	natural
  Marriage	25 Jul 1931	Queens, New York, USA
  Anniversary wedding	25 Jul 1981
  	50th wedding anniversary
  		Smith Giamatti, Toni & parents anc_ 20251202GHLn- ScottCGilchrist originally shared this on 12 Oct 2011 Dad Abe Mom Kaye & Daughters 1981 Abe and Kaye Smith Location: NJ Linked to Toni Marilynn SMITH
  Family ID	F62854	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Giamatti, Angelo Bartlett,   b. 4 Apr 1938, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, USA d. 1 Sep 1989, West Tisbury, Dukes, Massachusetts, USA (Age 51 years)
  Married	1960	Boston, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA
  Marriage	25 Jun 1960	Plainfield, Union, New Jersey, USA
  Children	1. Giamatti, P.E.V.   2. Giamatti, M.B.   3. Giamatti, Elena  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
  Family ID	F62802	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Event Map

  Birth - 19 Feb 1937 - Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, USA Obituary - Yale Daily News 2025- Former first lady of Yale passes away - - New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut, USA Residence - Between 1950 and 1989 - Plainfield, Union, New Jersey, USA Married - 1960 - Boston, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA Marriage - 25 Jun 1960 - Plainfield, Union, New Jersey, USA Death - 18 Sep 2004 - Hamden, New Haven, Connecticut, USA  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Photos » Slide Show		Smith Giamatti, Toni & Abe bw anc_ 20251202GHLn- ScottCGilchrist originally shared this on 12 Oct 2011 Giamattis 1960 Toni Smith Giamatti and Linked to Toni Marilynn SMITH
  		Smith Giamatti, Toni & parents anc_ 20251202GHLn- ScottCGilchrist originally shared this on 12 Oct 2011 Dad Abe Mom Kaye & Daughters 1981 Abe and Kaye Smith Location: NJ Linked to Toni Marilynn SMITH
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  		Giamatti sisters, Toni & Sandy anc_ 20251202GHLn- ScottCGilchrist originally shared this on 12 Oct 2011 Sisters Toni Smith Giamatti and Sandy Smith 1990 NJ Linked to Toni Marilynn SMITH
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FSID: 9V39-24B