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.

Ang Lucile Packard Foundation for Children's Health ay itinatag noong 1996 bilang isang independiyenteng pampublikong kawanggawa upang itaguyod at protektahan ang kalusugan ng mga bata. Ang pundasyon ay nagtataas ng mga pondo para sa Lucile Packard Children's Hospital at ang mga programang pediatric sa Stanford School of Medicine. Nagbibigay din ang foundation ng mga gawad sa mga organisasyong pangkomunidad na nagtataguyod ng kalusugan at kapakanan ng mga bata sa mga county ng San Mateo at Santa Clara, at nagpapakalat ng impormasyon sa mga isyu sa kalusugan ng mga bata.

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.