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.

卢西尔·帕卡德儿童健康基金会成立于1996年，是一家独立的公共慈善机构，致力于促进和保护儿童健康。该基金会为卢西尔·帕卡德儿童医院和斯坦福大学医学院的儿科项目筹集资金。此外，该基金会还向圣马特奥县和圣克拉拉县致力于促进儿童健康和福祉的社区组织提供资助，并传播儿童健康方面的信息。

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.