Boyd Smith Elected to Board of Children’s Health Foundation

PALO ALTO – Boyd Smith, founding partner at WSJ Associates, a real estate management firm based in Palo Alto, has been elected to a three-year term on the board of directors of the Lucile Packard Foundation for Children’s Health.

Smith, a resident of Palo Alto since 1956, devotes much of his time to community service. Formerly chairman of the board of both the YMCA of the Mid-Peninsula and the Senior Coordinating Council, Smith was also a director of the Palo Alto Chamber of Commerce. Currently, he serves on the boards of the Community Foundation Silicon Valley and the Children’s Health Council. He is also on the Board of Overseers of the Hoover Institution.

Together with his wife, Jill Johnson Smith, and the Wheatley and Jacobsen families, Smith co-founded the California Family Foundation in September 1984. A major project of the foundation has been to fund the Beechwood School, which serves 160 students from East Palo Alto and the Belle Haven area of Menlo Park.

Smith earned his B.S. in Economics at the University of Utah and his M.B.A. from Stanford University. The Smiths are the parents of five children and grandparents of four.

تأسست مؤسسة لوسيل باكارد لصحة الأطفال عام ١٩٩٦ كمؤسسة خيرية عامة مستقلة لتعزيز صحة الأطفال وحمايتها. تجمع المؤسسة التبرعات لمستشفى لوسيل باكارد للأطفال وبرامج طب الأطفال في كلية ستانفورد للطب. كما تقدم المؤسسة منحًا للمنظمات المجتمعية التي تعزز صحة الأطفال ورفاهيتهم في مقاطعتي سان ماتيو وسانتا كلارا، وتنشر معلومات حول قضايا صحة الأطفال.

Other foundation board members are Anne T. Bass; Robert L. Black, M.D.; Martha S. Campbell; Roger A. Clay Jr.; Price M. Cobbs, M.D.; LaDoris Cordell; J. Taylor Crandall; John M. Driscoll, M.D.; Bruce Dunlevie; the Hon. Liz Figueroa; Laurence R. Hoagland Jr.; Irene M. Ibarra; Matt James; Susan Liautaud; William F. Nichols; Susan P. Orr; George Pavlov; Stephen Peeps; Russell Siegelman; Karen Sutherland; Mike Ullman and Alan A. Watahara.