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.
بنیاد سلامت کودکان لوسیل پاکارد در سال ۱۹۹۶ به عنوان یک موسسه خیریه عمومی مستقل برای ارتقاء و حفاظت از سلامت کودکان تأسیس شد. این بنیاد برای بیمارستان کودکان لوسیل پاکارد و برنامههای کودکان در دانشکده پزشکی استنفورد کمک مالی جمعآوری میکند. این بنیاد همچنین به سازمانهای اجتماعی که سلامت و رفاه کودکان را در شهرستانهای سن ماتئو و سانتا کلارا ارتقا میدهند، کمکهای مالی میکند و اطلاعات مربوط به مسائل مربوط به سلامت کودکان را منتشر میکند.
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.
