Polly Ann Eastman (1916-2000), became part of the Labor Team, which is where she got to know Stuart Eastman Smith. For American Presbyterians like the Eastmans, the Church of Scotland was the mother church, and set a plausible background for this marriage.
Polly Ann had grown up in Hollywood, attending Hollywood High School and University of California in Los Angeles. She was a singer, and as such participated in You Can Defend America in the 1940s. In the 1950s she travelled for a year with another Moral Re-Armament production, The Vanishing Island, in which she understudied one of the lead singers.
Polly Ann and Stuart Smith were married in Mountain House, Caux, September 30, 1948, and were among the Moral Re-Armament people who helped mount the early conferences at Caux that became significant in Franco-German reconciliation. The Smiths returned to America in 1951, and worked with MRA in Los Angeles and San Francisco. They then continued their mobile life with MRA by going to Tokyo, Japan, 1957-58; various locations in the US 1958-1961; Glasgow, Scotland 1962-1967; London, England 1967-1970; Melbourne and Canberra, Australia and Auckland New Zealand, 1970-1972; Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea, 1973-1975. In 1976 they moved back to the United States once again and lived in Silver Spring, Maryland, in the Washington, DC suburbs, from 1976-1994. They lived their final years in Santa Barbara, California.
They had one daughter, Margaret, born in Lausanne, Switzerland in 1949, who now lives in the United States.
