Omaha World Herald on September 2: Omaha couple being honored for their support of arts, humanities
Between the two of them, Paul and Annette Smith have degrees in business, engineering, architecture and psychology.
And yet over the past two decades, they’ve been among Omaha’s most important philanthropic supporters of the arts and humanities.
“In a way, it sounds like it doesn’t fit,” said Paul Smith, a founding member of Tenaska Capital Management. “But both of us have been lifelong lovers of the arts, music and literature, and so we’ve always been active members of the consuming public.
“Even if we don’t play musical instruments, and we don’t come from a background where we got a degree in English literature or that sort of thing, it’s been an important part of our lives.”