[Congressional Record Volume 156, Number 8 (Friday, January 22, 2010)]
[Senate]
[Page S152]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                         ADDITIONAL STATEMENTS

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                        REMEMBERING SMITH BAGLEY

 Mrs. BOXER. Mr. President, I ask my colleagues to join me in 
honoring Smith Bagley, a beloved philanthropist and entrepreneur with 
an unwavering dedication to improving the lives of others. Mr. Bagley 
passed away on January 2 due to complications from a stroke. He was 74 
years old. Smith will be deeply missed by all he touched, and he 
touched many.
  Smith Bagley was born in Manhattan on April 1, 1935, to Nancy 
Reynolds Bagley and Henry Walker Bagley. He graduated from Washington 
and Lee University and served as a captain in the U.S. Army Reserves.
  Smith was a successful businessman and chief executive of the 
cellular telephone company SBI. Passionate about progressive causes, 
Smith dedicated much of his life to fighting for social justice, human 
rights, education, and environmental preservation.
  Smith served as president of the Arca Foundation, a grant-making 
trust dedicated to transparency in government and enterprise, 
diplomacy, and raising the standard of living here and in the 
developing world.
  A champion of education, Smith founded the precursor to Communities 
in Schools, the Nation's largest dropout prevention program. He was a 
former trustee of the John F. Kennedy Center Performing Arts. Smith 
founded a public policy research institute, the Brenn Foundation, and 
was a board member of the Sapelo Island Research Foundation, a center 
for environmental research.
  Due to his tireless efforts on behalf of the Catholic University of 
America, Smith was honored with the title of chairman emeritus and 
presented with the university's highest honor, the President's Medal.
  He is survived by his wife of 26 years, former Ambassador to Portugal 
Elizabeth Frawley Bagley; his six children, Walker Bagley, Nancy 
Reynolds Bagley, Nicole Ladmer Bagley, Brett Dylan Bagley, Vaughan 
Elizabeth Bagley, and Conor Reynolds Bagley; a sister, Susan Bagley 
Bloom; and five grandchildren. My heart goes out to them during this 
time of grief.
  In the words of former President William Jefferson Clinton, who 
delivered Smith's closing eulogy, ``This man, notwithstanding the 
circumstances in which he was born or the wealth he generated for 
himself, always found a way to give more than he took.''
  Smith will be sorely missed, not only by the friends and family who 
knew him well but also by those whose lives were made better by his 
unwavering commitment to equality and justice.

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