July 28, 2005
Clark University Recognizes Johnson of Worcester with Distinguished Service Award
WORCESTER, MA -- Nancy Johnson of Worcester received the Distinguished Service Award, Clark University’s Alumni Association's highest honor on May 20. The award recognized Johnson's longtime dedication and service to Clark.
Johnson has been an extremely active member of the Clark Alumni Association and an ardent supporter of the University for more than 50 years. She began her volunteer activities soon after she graduated from Clark, serving as secretary of the former Alumni Council in the 1960s. She began a second decade of work on the Alumni Council in the 1990s, serving on and as chair of the Outstanding Secondary Educator Award Committee. Johnson is also an enthusiastic volunteer for the Alumni Association’s First-Year Move-In Day, in which local alumni help first-year students move into residence halls. She has also been active on her reunion committees, in both programming and fundraising. As class agent for the Class of 1955 this past year, Johnson was instrumental in helping her class earn the highest class participation in annual giving. She was present at her 50-year reunion to accept the award.
Johnson received her bachelor’s degree in romance languages and her master’s degree in education from Clark University. She received her doctor of education from Boston University. Johnson taught in the Auburn Public Schools for seven years and was a reading supervisor in the Groton Public Schools. She was a professor of education at Worcester State College for 27 years. She served as president of the Massachusetts Association of Teacher Educators and is currently president of the Worcester Woman’s Club.
Clark University is a private, co-educational liberal-arts research university with 2,000 undergraduate and 600 graduate students. Since its founding in 1887 as the first all-graduate school in New England, Clark has challenged convention with innovative programs such as the International Studies Stream, the Strassler Family Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies and the five-year BA/MA programs with the fifth year tuition-free for eligible students.
Angela M. Bazydlo
Associate Director of Media Relations
Clark University
Worcester, Mass.
phone: 508-793-7635
cell: 508-314-6140
www.clarku.edu
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