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STUART RICHADSON WARD
STUART RICHARDSON WARD, business executive, was born August 3, 1894, in Stoneham, Massachusetts; the son of Charles A. and Marian L. (Richardson) Ward. He attended the University of California from which he graduated with the degree of Bachelor of Science in 1924.
From 1912 to 1917 Mr. Ward was engaged in general business and advertising; then in social work from 1918 to 1920; served as assistant executive secretary for the Commonwealth Club of California from 1924 to 1930 and as executive secretary since 1931. Mr. Ward is the founder (1940) and moderator of “California Council Table,” radio station KSFO. He served as radio operator for the United States Navy in 1917; press delegate to the Havana Conference of Foreign Ministers in 1940; executive vice chairman for San Francisco Civilian Defense in 1941.
Member of the Western Governmental Research Association (president, 1938); Belmont Chamber of Commerce (president, 1930); Pan American Society (director, 1943); American Legion (district commander, 1936; state chairman of National Defense, 1938); Beta Gamma Sigma, Hammer and Coffin, Alpha Kappa Lambda fraternities; and the following clubs: San Francisco Press, Sierra, and Commonwealth of California.
Mr. Ward is the author of “Report of California Commission for the Study of Educational Problems,” 1931, “The Good Neighbor Policy, Pro and Con,” 1939; also contributor of miscellaneous articles on social and technical subjects to magazines and newspapers; has been editor of the “The Commonwealth” since 1925. He belongs to the Congregational Church and is a Republican.
On July 3, 1926, Mr. Ward married Thelma J. Hudson; children: Charles Richardson, Janet Hudson and Curwen Bodwell. On November 23, 1940, he married (2d) Margaret L. Bellinghausen; children: Roger Currier, Richard Oliver, Stuart Richardson, Jr.
Home: 3406 Clay Street, San Francisco 18, California
Office: Commonwealth Club of California, Hotel St. Francis, San Francisco 19, California
Transcribed
By: Michele Y. Larsen on July 28, 2013.
Source: Eminent Californians 1953, by Lee
E. Johnson & C. W. Taylor. Page 37, C. W. Taylor Publ.,
Palo Alto, California, 1953.
© 2013 Michele Y. Larsen.
San Francisco County Biographies