More coverage online: To watch video interviews with Jim and Dottie Johnson, visit Stetson Today at Stetson.edu/today.
For Jim Johnson, organizing the Multicultural Alumni Networking event is a way to give back to Stetson and students: “I found over the years that you have to be steeped in your faith, you have to have someone who’s pushing and encouraging, and you have to have people who are supportive, and I had all of that.”
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Then and now: A story in the DeLand Sun News on Nov. 5, 1967, featured a story about Stetson students Dorothy Pompey, above, left, and Jim Johnson tutoring students at DeLand’s Southwestern High School. Jim and Dorothy “Dottie” Pompey Johnson ’69, a math major, have been married for 49 years and have two children. Photo: Stetson University/Bobby Fishbough
A lifetime of friendships: Old Hatter yearbooks from the 1960s include, from left to right, Franklin Biggins, Jim Johnson and Maurice Woodard. The three men reminisced about their time at Stetson during the annual Multicultural Alumni Networking event, during Homecoming Weekend in November 2017. Event photo: Stetson University/ Will Phillips