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Marian Dettman Johnson
2002 Outstanding Service to Alma Mater
Marian
Dettman Johnson has been a class agent for the Dakota Wesleyan University
Class of 1950 for nearly seven years. She writes great letters to help
keep her class informed about DWU.
Johnson is always available and willing to help in any way
to promote the university. She presented information on genealogy at the
1998 Alumni Days and will present an Alumni College session about writing
memoirs at this summer's Alumni Days.
Following her graduation from DWU, Johnson taught music
in public schools at Mitchell; Sioux Falls; Westfield, Iowa; and Gibbon,
Neb. She retired last year from her position as Elderhostel Lecturer at
the University of Nebraska at Kearney. She also was a live-in director
and curator of the Frank House, a historic museum owned by the university.
She is the past president of the Buffalo County Historical
Society and is a past board member of the Trails and Rails Museum. She
is a member of the Nebraska State Historical Society, where she served
as a board member for historic sites. Johnson represented the state of
Nebraska for two terms as a member of the board of advisers for the National
Trust for Historic Preservation.
Johnson has written several historical articles, which were
published by the Buffalo County Historical Society. She and her husband,
Dr. Halvin S. Johnson, now deceased, jointly received the University of
Nebraska Distinguished Service Award in 1990.
Johnson is currently the president of the Pony Express Condominium
Association and is a board member of the Golden K Kiwanis group in Kearney,
where she lives.
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