Sally Haws Johnson, Penn Alumni
Sally Haws Johnson, a former administrator in the School of Medicine and in Penn Alumni, died on March 12. She was 93.
Ms. Johnson grew up in the Philadelphia suburbs. She graduated from Haverford High School in 1947, then earned a degree in chemistry from Wilson College in 1951. After further studies in chemistry at Mount Holyoke College, she worked as a chemist at Smith, Kline & French, taught physics at the Springside School in Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia, and then devoted the next decade to raising her four children and doing community volunteer work in University City, Philadelphia. In the late 1960s, she returned to work at the University of Pennsylvania, where her husband, Stanley Johnson, served as chaplain. Ms. Johnson was an administrator in the Office of Equal Opportunity of the School of Medicine, overseeing services for students with disabilities in the biochemistry department for nearly 20 years. In the late 1970s, she rose to associate director of the office. In 1982, she became editor of publications in the Office of Alumni Relations, a position she also held for nearly 20 years.
A funeral service will be held at St. Thomas Episcopal Church, Whitemarsh, Pennsylvania on March 23 at 11 a.m., preceded by a private burial. Instead of flowers, the family requests donations to the Schuylkill Center for Environmental Education or the Northeast Pennsylvania Audubon Society.
Ms. Johnson is survived by her four children, Laura Johnson (Laura Jereski), Lexanne Anderson-Bell (Andrew), Peter Hunt-Johnson (Nora), and Amy Johnson (Edward Brady); and her six grandchildren, Lowell and Gordon Abbott, Evan and Alison Hunt-Johnson, and Kyle and Arden Brady. She was predeceased by her husband of 61 years, former University Chaplain Reverend Stanley Ethan Johnson.