Temple University School of Dentistry - Odontolog Yearbook (Philadelphia, PA)

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DR. ROBERT L. JOHNSON President of Temple University I)r. Johnson graduated from the Taft School in 1914. He then attended Vale I'nivcrsity where, 1918. he became one of the organizers of the Vale Batteries which later developed into the first important K. 0. T. C. unit in the United States. He left Yale in the spring of his Junior year to serve with the armed forces and after receiving a commission at Plnttsburg, he went to Europe for further training and was then assigned to the First Division. Shortly after the war. Dr. Johnson joined a small group and became one of the founders of Time magazine and he became the first President of that corporation. In 1935 Dr. Johnson took a year's leave of absence to become Belief Administrator in Governor George Earle’s cabinet for one year. At this time he reorganized the relief administration in the State of Pennsylvania. After the year passed he returned to Time, Inc. to help establish tAfe magazine. Dr. Johnson has written a number of magazine articles, the best known being “A Business Man Looks at Relief.” This article appeared in several issues of the Saturday Evening Post early in 1936. In 1937 Dr. Johnson was elected President of the National Civil Service Reform League where, for three years, he directed a drive particularly in state governments, toward developing the merit system in legislation. Dr. Johnson has been and is now, a Trustee of the Boys' Club of New York which is the first boys’ club to have been founded in the country. 16