the Victory Fund Committee. He led the San Francisco chapter of the American Red Cross from 1944 to 1946. Blyth served one term as president of the Burlingame Country Club from 1939 to 1941, and two terms as vice president. He served as president of the Philharmonic Society of San Mateo County; a group that produced a symphony series at the Woodland Amphitheatre. Blyth also served as the vice president of the board of the San Francisco Symphony as well as the San Francisco Opera. Blyth helped raise money for the American Cancer Society, and many other charities. He served as chairman of the California Olympic Commission, formed to produce the 1960 Winter Olympics in Squaw Valley, California. He was a member of the Bohemian Club, the Pacific-Union Club, and other clubs such as the Links Club in New York City. For Stanford University, Blyth served as a trustee, and also as a director of Stanford Research Institute. He was also a trustee of the De Young museum and St. Luke's Hospital, both in San Francisco, and the Mills-Peninsula Hospital in San Mateo. Blyth was a central figure in the Blyth–Zellerbach Committee, a group of leading San Francisco industrialists who help fund and organize various civic projects and enterprises. Personal life Blyth first married the former Marjorie Ramsay in 1915. They had two daughters. Marjorie died in 1923. Two years later he married Marjorie's sister Kathrine. They had another daughter and a son—Charles R. Blyth Jr. In 1936, Blyth and his wife bought a house in Hillsborough, California, made for Stanford trustee Joseph Donohoe Grant in 1912. The two-story house, designed in the Italian Renaissance Revival style, was renovated by the Blyths, who reworked the interior. They named the house and property "Strawberry Hill". It was pictured in Life magazine in 1947, showing a formal garden and a swimming pool. Architecturally significant, the house was included in the Historic American Buildings Survey. In 1940, Blyth quit smoking, and he established a no-smoking policy at his office. Blyth died at Strawberry Hill in August 1959, of heart failure. At his death Blyth had eight grandchildren. His widow Katherine Blyth died May 12, 1975. Legacy Because of Blyth's leadership in the early effort to prepare for the 1960 Winter Olympics, Blyth Arena at Squaw Valley was named for him. In 1978, the Blyth family donated $75,000 to Stanford University to establish the