Wally Smith, 83, a retired industrial arts teacher in Anchorage, donated $1,000 to local disaster relief efforts this month because he “had a kindness to repay to those who were kind to me” during a trip to Haines in 1964.
At the time, Smith was on his way to the Haines ferry terminal bound for the Lower 48 where he would attend graduate school in Colorado. While driving through Canada, a fellow teacher had mechanical…