Show Teacher To Retire J. Wallace a veteran Seminary teacher and principal whose retirement is scheduled for the close of the school was honored by his fellow-workers of the Davis Seminary District at their regular monthly faculty meeting held April 13 in the Bountiful st ward meeting IT WAS a complete surprise to the honored guest who felt he was attending the regular monthly in-service training meeting of his group until the very beginning of the Much effort and planning had been done by many people to preserve the total surprise element of the THE PROGRAM took the form of a is your Script was written by Johnson's Pat Pat was for many years a correspondent for the Davis County Clipper until her marriage when she moved from the area some years Her gift of writing revived many events of the life of The program was made very meaningful by the visit of many friends of years past who made their contribution in recounting their past contacts with the retiring The visit of these friends was made even more appreciated and meaningful when it was realized that the night of the program was the night of the most recent bad snow storm of the SUCH representing high previous job experiences and Seminary associations were interesting and a special source of joy to People came from Cedar Cache Valley and many parts of Salt Lake and Davis and Weber Counties to add their part to the A special point of interest and satisfaction was the fact that all of the children of and Johnson were able to be Each one added his little intimate bit to the THE SCRIPT was read and narrated by a As he read and presented guest enrichment was added by a series of slides made from photo- J. WALLACE JOHNSON graphs of the past and flashed on the The program was interspersed by some musical After he program was spent in visiting and enjoying During the evening a book was presented to the guest which contained pictures and sentiments from his fellow workers in the Seminary A lovely AM-FM radio was also given as a gift by the fellow JOHNSON was born in Utah in He received his elementary education in the Carbon School District in schools in Sunnyside and Graduating from Carbon High School in he spent the next school year at BYU and the following one at the University of At this point further was interrupted by a number of events and He filled a mission for the Church to Mexico from June 1928 to June RETURNING from this mission in the height of the he felt fortunate to get a job with Calder Creamery of for whom he worked until During these years he did all possible to continue his education through special classes and He married Lela Goodrich of Vernal in To this union have been born six The oldest son died at The others are Clyde Braegger of Rey of Milo An-drus of Wayne T. of St. and Harold Lund of ALL ARE now married and have put the Johnsons in the category with eight grandchildren and the firm promise of more to At the death of their first and Johnson went on a short term mission to after which he continued his employment with In 1938 he resigned this position and returned to the FURTHER education was when Johnson was elected treasurer of Uintah This election was made unusual in that the candidate did no active and did not know of his election until he read of it in the Salt Lake paper the following Though he had to leave his studies to assume the position of he had come close enough to the degree he was seeking to complete his work and received his A. B. degree in IN 1941 the Johnsons made the choice that led them to the recent program when he accepted a position with the Department of Education and was assigned to be principal of the Wyoming They remained in Lyman for five years and then were transferred to Utah were Johnson was principal of the Seminary for six In 1951 their became a victim of After a year of very little recovery it was felt wise to move near to Salt Lake to be close to better hospital The decision brought them to Bountiful in the fall of 1952 where Johnson assumed the of the Bountiful AT THAT time a small Seminary was being built adjacent to the Bountiful High which was then just a two-year The only other Seminary in Davis County was the John R. Barnes Seminary at The two-room Bountiful Seminary was soon expanded to a five room building as Bountiful High became a four-year THE intervening years have seen great growth in the Seminary program of the area with the construction of large Seminaries in Viewmont and nine grade Seminaries in the At the present construction is just beginning on the new Seminary adjacent to the Woods Cross School which will open this The growth of this program in the area and their connection with it have been a source of real joy to them during the The past eight or nine years Johnson has served as principal of the Bountiful North from which school he will be IN 1956 Johnson received his M. A. degree from Though he did not choose to enter a doctoral program at that time he has continued his studies whenever possible and has between hours of credit beyond his Masters |