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Mr. Howard J. Smith, Jr.
Mr. Howard Smith graduated from Troy High School in Troy, PA in 1946 and received his Bachelor of Science degree in Commerce and Finance from Bucknell University in 1950.
Mr. Smith served in the U.S. Army and U.S. Army Reserves retiring with the rank of Major in 1975 after 21 years. Following his military career, he was employed with GTE, Sylvania. He then became self-employed as a Financial Planner with American Express Financial Advisors (now Ameriprise Financial) where he retired in 2006 after 45 years.
Mr. Smith’s service work includes 25 years as member of Mansfield University Council of Trustees (12 of which as a member of the Executive Board of the State Association of Trustees of the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education - two years as president). He is also a Trustee of Guthrie Healthcare System and Martha Lloyd Community Services, Inc., board member of Community Foundation for the Twin Tiers, a former Township Supervisor and president of Western Bradford County Council of Governments, Executive Board member of the Bradford County Republican Party, Board of Trustees member of the Bradford County Library, member and past master of local subordinate Grange. He is a member of United Methodist Church, (serving as lay leader, Sunday school teacher, choir member and chairman of the church council), a member of various Masonic bodies, a member of Veterans of Foreign Wars and American Legion. Mr. Smith formerly served as a tutor for the Bradford County Literacy Program at the Bradford County Correctional Facility.
Mr. Smith was awarded the Eberle Award for Volunteerism at Mansfield University in 2000 by the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education. His hobbies include golf, sheep farming and volunteering at Bradford County Manor. He and his wife have accompanied the Mansfield University Concert Choir on all five of their triennial European tours.
Mr. Smith has been married to Olynda Smith (Chaffee) of LeRaysville, PA since 1959. Mrs. Smith received her B.S. from Mansfield State College in 1957 and retired after 35 years of teaching in the Troy Area School District, Troy, PA. Howard and Olynda have two children, Cynthia Smith Porter and Curtis Smith, and have five grandchildren.