HMHS teacher Ron Smith is the recipient of the Daughters of the American Revolution Conservation Award.
Ron Smith received the Daughters of the American Revolution Conservation Award and Medal from the Haddonfield Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR)on May 13. Smith is an Advanced Placement Environmental Science teacher at Haddonfield Memorial High School. Smith was nominated to receive the award for his outdoor classroom activities.
His past activities including collecting data on the number of shorebirds at Brigantine each fall, an 8-week spring campaign to rescue horseshoe crabs along the Delaware Bay, canoe trips through the Pine Barrons, data collections along Hopkins Pond and throughout the Camden County Park Systems among many other activities and projects.
In addition to his duties at HMHS, Smith leads the Drexel Environmental Science Leadership Academy (DESLA), a program for prospective Drexel University students who visit field camps at the Barnegat Bay and the Poconos.
“Ron Smith is one of those rare teachers who doesn’t teach his students from only a desk and a book, he teaches them from a place of personal commitment,” said Amanda Dey, principal zoologist with the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection. “He teaches them in the place where they live.”
