Samantha Smith Remembered

Samantha Smith, a Maine girl who went to the Soviet Union in 1983 as guest of the Soviet leader, was awarded a posthumous Peace Pilgrim Prize” here Wednesday.

Samantha died last summer in a plane crash in Maine, and the award was presented to her mother, Jayne Smith, during 40th anniversary celebrations of the United Nations.

The award was given by the Peace Pilgrims, an American women’s organization with affiliates in several states. The group in 1975 presented the United Nations with a “peace rug” decorated with the emblems of U.N. member nations.

Samantha Smith went to the Soviet Union and met with the late Soviet leader, Yuri V. Andropov, after she sent a letter to Andropov expressing her concerns about world peace.