LDF Official's Son Named by President
Press Release
June 8, 1968

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Press Releases, Volume 5. LDF Official's Son Named by President, 1968. c65660ba-b892-ee11-be37-6045bddb811f. LDF Archives, Thurgood Marshall Institute. https://ldfrecollection.org/archives/archives-search/archives-item/05360d51-0746-4eea-9c02-32cbfb702239/ldf-officials-son-named-by-president. Accessed April 22, 2025.
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120 if 4 he 79 nr toa. Wranele Bi Rivers | /\ PRESS RELEASE Director-Counsel | egal efense und Jack Greenberg Director, Public Relations NAACP LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATIONAL FUND, INC. Jesse DeVore, Jr. 10 Columbus Circle. New York, N.Y. 10019 * JUdson 68397 4) pa aa NIGHT NUMBER 712-749-8487 SATURDAY June 8, 1968 LDF OFFICIAL'S SON NAMED BY PRESIDENT NEW YORK---Mark Douglas Smith, 16-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Rufus W. Smith, 216 Kane Street, Brooklyn, has been named a Presidential Scholar of 1968. His father is Director of Development for the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc.; his mother is reading consultant for District 13 of the New York City Board of Education. Young Smith, along with a select group of high school seniors throughout the country, will be the guests of President and Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson at the White House on June 10. Presidential scholars are chosen on the basis of academic achievements and extra-curricular activities. Mr. Smith will be graduated on June 8 from the Millbrook School, Millbrook, New York, a college preparatory school in Dutchess County. He will deliver the student commencement address. He will be one of the first two Negro students ever to graduate from the school. A former student at Brooklyn Friends School where his sister, Marcia, 9, is presently enrolled, young Smith entered the Millbrook School in the fall of 1964. He has been an honor student for four years and was recently inducted into the Cum Laude Society, national honor society for high school students. Outstanding in extra-curricular activities, he is president of the student body; assistant editor of the "Silo," campus newspaper; member of the debating team; and a member of the editorial boards of the "Mill" and "Tamarack," literary magazine and yearbook, respectively. In sports he is a member of the Millbrook varsity teams in soccer, squash, racquets, and tennis. Mr. Smith was named National Achievement Scholar by the National Merit Corporation in March and was also a National Merit finalist. He will enter Harvard College in September. =30-