Harold “Snuffy” Smith, who is retiring this month after 18 years at San Marcos Academy, received the school’s Exemplary Service Medal May 15 for “distinguished service to God and man through Christian education.”
The medal is the highest award the Academy can bestow and has been presented to 29 individuals since it was established in 1970. Dr. Brian N. Guenther, SMA president, and Dr. Ruth Welborn, chair of the Board of Trustees, presented the award.
After a long and distinguished coaching career, Smith joined the academy staff in 2001 as associate director of admissions, working under one of his own former coaches, Bobby Dale Dupree. Smith would later be named vice president for enrollment management and athletics and in 2016 was named vice president for administration. He will retire on May 29, ending a 45-year career in education.
