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to badly injured student
Spanish major Noah Smith
remains at Sacred Heart
Medical Center after an
airborne tire hit his car Dec. 1
Danielle Gillespie
Safety/Crime/Transportation Reporter
University junior Noah Smith
was driving to Eugene from his
hometown of Hood River on Dec.
1, after visiting with his family for
the Thanksgiving break, when a
tire fell off a vehicle heading in the
opposite direction, hit the con
crete median, and struck the cab
of his truck.
The impact of the crash broke
his neck and his C-7 vertebra,
leaving him with no movement in
his legs and limited movement of
his arms and hands, according to
his mother, Marilyn Smith.
“We don’t know if he’ll be para
lyzed,” she said. “He will have to
go through intensive therapy, and
there is always hope; it’s just kind
of one of those unknowns.”
Noah Smith’s insurance through
the University’s Health Center has
expired, and the driver of the oth
er vehicle was uninsured. Al
though he has automobile insur
ance, the coverage is limited, his
mother said.
His family is unsure if they will
be filing a lawsuit against the oth
er driver.
“We have hired an attorney to see
whether there are any assets avail
able, but if not, there’s not much we
can do,” Marilyn Smith said.
Noah Smith is working toward a
major in Spanish and a minor in
theater at the University. He be
came came interested in Spanish
because of his love for traveling,
his mother said.
After high school, Noah Smith
traveled to Kenya and to South
Africa before attending the Univer
sity, and during college, he studied
in Mexico on an exchange program
and had plans to visit Chile in the
spring, Marilyn Smith said.
“He is just very interested in oth
er people and cultures,” she said.
Noah Smith also has a love for
acting, which he discovered in
high school, when performing in
the musical “Children of Eden,”
his mother said.
During his time at the Universi
ty, Noah Smith has appeared in
William Shakespeare’s “As You
Like It” and Thornton Wilder’s
“The Matchmaker.”
On Friday night, Pour Babies, a
local improv group, performed at
Lord Leebrick Theatre Company as
a benefit show for Noah Smith. The
group donated all the money from
ticket sales along with any extra
contributions to Noah Smith and
his family. Pour Babies earned
about $900 for them.
Lord Leebrick Theatre Company
Artistic Director Corey Pearlstein
donated the theater’s time that
evening to Pour Babies in Noah
Smith’s honor.
“My donation hardly seems per
tinent,” he said. “Noah is an amaz
ing person, and he’s a part of this
theater.”
Pearlstein met Noah Smith when
he performed in “As You Like It,”
and said he has many friends not
only at the University but in the Eu
gene community.
“His touch is just amazingly
broad,” he said.
Pearlstein said he has enjoyed
watching Noah Smith perform at
the theater.
“He is such a beautiful, innocent
looking fellow, but then he starts
blasting out hip hop,” he said. “He’s
so sweet and endearing, but it’s not
like he doesn’t live in this world.”
University junior and Pour Babies
member Jana Schmieding said she
met Noah Smith her freshman year
in acting class and they have been
friends ever since.
Schmieding said he was kind of
quiet during his freshman year but
loved acting class so much that he
even cried on the last day of class.
“Everyone fell in love with him af
ter that,” she said. “He is just kind of
reserved, but he ended up being such
a presence on stage; he just really
started to open up after that year.”
Former University student
Kendall Dodd said she came to the
performance because she wanted to
show her support for Noah Smith.
“He is just the sweetest guy; he is
open and accepting of everyone,
and this is just an awful, random ac
cident,” Dodd said.
Noah Smith is currently at Eu
gene’s Sacred Heart Medical Center,
and sometime this week he’ll be
transferred to Portland’s Good
Samaritan Hospital for rehabilita
tion. He is expected to stay at the
hospital for four to six weeks, his
mother said.
If people wish to make a contri
bution to the Smiths, they can
make a donation at any Pacific Con
tinental Bank branch in the Eu
gene-Springfield area.
Contact the reporter
atdaniellegillespie@dailyemerald.com.
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