Robert Wayne "Bob" Johnson

Mr. Johnson- you touched my heart when my son Jim Ahearn was your student. "he's an old soul" you told me- you really cared about him at a time when Jim needed a mentor and a friend. You both had a hunger for knowledge and you encouraged him to think things thru. The trip to Europe you were a trusted friend and educator. May God reward you for the many lives you've touched in such a powerful and kind way. With the greatest respect and heartfelt condolences for your treasured family I am ...

Johnson was one of the two teachers that I consider to be foundational for the adult I have grown to be. He taught me to question effectively, to apply empathy intelligently as a tool to foster understanding, to reassess what he termed "social constructions of reality" and that currently might be referred to as "first principles." I was there when he started Model UN as a formal school club. I was there when he was setting up the Indigenous Art and Reality Project at the school. I was blessed...