PIONEER PORTRAITS

Ten Years Ago

March 14, 2013

A group of teachers in the Prescott School District has created a scholarship fund in honor of former athletic director Jack Smiley, with the first recipient expected to be a 2013 graduate. The initiators of the Jack Smiley Memorial Scholarship, the Prescott Education Association teachers’ union, hope the popular sports figure’s reputation and his aspirations for young student-athletes will inspire Prescott alumni and residents of the Touchet Valley to help support it with donations. “It’s a way to remember Jack and benefit students at the school,” said Jeff Foerts...