In the 34 years he has served as the
University's Chaplain, Rev.
Stanley E. Johnson has become one of the
best known and best loved
members of the Penn family. Thousands and
thousands of students and
their families, along with faculty, staff,
alumni and friends of Penn,
have enjoyed the grace and words of wisdom
he brings to convocations and
other Penn events--and his frequent
sideline presence at athletic events.
Many have personal reason to be grateful
to him for his compassion and
guidance at difficult moments in their
lives.
Chaplain Johnson's services to the
University have included being
Dean of Admissions and a valuable member
of many University committees,
such as Community Relations, Student
Affairs, and Recreation and
Intercollegiate Athletics, and being a
counselor to Presidents and other
officers. Not only through formal
responsibilities, but through
informal ones as well, he has given
encouragement to numerous University
students by his enthusiastic and
encouraging presence. His compassion
and humanity are traits he shares with his
wife, Sally, who has earned
the respect and affection of all who have
come to know her through her
professional and volunteer work for the
University and West
Philadelphia.
Therefore, the Trustees of the
University of Pennsylvania record,
on behalf of themselves, the overseers,
administration, faculty,
students, and alumni, their gratitude and
affection for Stanley and
Sally Johnson, and their delight that the
University will continue to
enjoy the Johnsons' presence in the
University community as they take up
residency in their new West Philadelphia
home as well as a new parsonage
on Nantucket; and it is
Resolved, that the Trustees confer upon
Rev. Stanley E. Johnson the E. Craig Sweeten
Award for Distinguished Service to the University
of Pennsylvania.
(Photo caption: [l-r] Provost Stanley Chodorow, President Judith Rodin, Trustees Chairman P. Roy Vagelos, Chaplain Stanley Johnson)
Almanac
Tuesday, July 18, 1995
Volume 42 Number 1
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At the year-end Trustees meeting on June
16, the University's retiring
chaplain, the Rev. Stanley E. Johnson, was
given the most prolongued
standing ovation in observers' memory as
he accepted the E. Craig
Sweeten Award, created by the longtime
development vice president for
whom the alumni center is named. The
Sweeten award has been given only
once before--to William G. Owen, a onetime
Dean of Admissions, Secretary
of the University, and Vice President for
Development, on his retirement
in 1986.