Bryan alumnus was one of the first aid workers into Haiti
by John Moore
Staff Writer
On Jan. 12, an earthquake with a magnitude of 7.0 struck the heart of an all-but-forgotten country in the Western hemisphere: Haiti. It was just over a month ago when we began to hear about Haiti. First it was the earthquake, then it was the disaster compounding the existing poverty of that country. But for most of the western world, what happened in Haiti would remain in Haiti—isolated. Those outside Haiti would be unaffected by its tragedy save what stories the media provided. But for IV Smith, things were different.
One week after the earthquake struck, a Bryan alumnus, Smith, or IV, as friends and family affectionately call him, was on a plane to the Dominican Republic with a friend. Their objective: to sneak across the border and guard and distribute relief supplies in conjunction with a mission organization called Thirst No More.
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