Ruth Johnson

Ruth Johnson, Ruston -- Johnson received a bachelor's degree in mathematics in 1931.

A retired educator, Johnson obtained her teaching certificate in 1926.She began her career in a two-room schoolhouse in Union Parish where she taught multiple grades.

After teaching at several schools and completing her degree, she went to Ruston High School in 1943.Until 1967 she taught geometry, Algebra I, Algebra II, senior arithmetic, trigonometry and calculus there.

After her retirement, she began a second career as hostess and cashier at the Holiday Inn in Ruston.She received a national honor from Holiday Inn for her outstanding professionalism.

This year she established a $100,000 professorship in Tech's department of chemistry in memory of her brother, the late professor T.W. Ray Johnson.

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