By SHARON SNYDER
Los Alamos

Frank Rand Jr. was born in Saint Louis, Mo., in January 1907, and attended the Los Alamos Ranch School in 1923-1924. In that year at the ranch school, he fell in love with New Mexico. Though his father had connections to Vanderbilt University and was a donor to St. Louis University, Frank chose to stay in the West and attend Colorado College. He graduated in 1930 with a major in English.

Frank was soon married, and he and his wife, Adele, settled in New Mexico. It wasn’t long until he became the owner/publisher of the Santa Fe New Mexican in the 1940s. He was also an avid sportsman and owned a cattle ranch and racing stable from which he won major races, including the Belmont. At one time, he was president of the Belmont Turf and Field Club.

Having other interests, as well, Frank enjoyed pursuits as a sportsman, but he was also civic minded. He soon served as a member of two boards, the Laboratory of Anthropology and the Valley Irrigation and Livestock Co.

He was also the state chairman of two important military support organizations from WWII, the War Savings Staff and the Navy Relief Society. If that wasn’t enough, he became an officer of the Civil Air Patrol in New Mexico.

Frank had become a Boy Scout in 1919 before coming to the Ranch School and supported the Scouts throughout his life. In 1955, he received the Silver Buffalo Award for distinguished service to boyhood, one of ten such awards presented that year by the National Council of the Boy Scouts of America. He was a member of the Northern New Mexico Council at Albuquerque from 1938 on and president of the Council from 1944 to 1946. He was also a member of the Region IX executive committee and elected to the national executive board in 1950. In addition, he was vice chairman of the Phillips Properties Committee. As a tribute to Frank Rand, there is a Boy Scout campground in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains named for Frank Rand.

Frank died Dec. 30, 1975, in Santa Fe, in the home he loved.