Wallace B. Johnson Papers

H.C. Administrator H.C. Class of 1915 Wallace Bradley Johnson was born in Utica, NY on 13 September 1892 and died in Clinton, NY on 29 August 1967, a Hamilton College graduate of the class of 1915 (Ph.B.). He was also graduated from Utica Free Academy and received an honorary L.H.D. from Hamilton in 1962. He attended Harvard Business School for a year before serving as an ambulance driver for the French Army and from 1918-20 an ensign in the U.S. Navy (Intelligence), then serving in Budapest in 1920 with President Hoover's War Relief Administration, and finally worked as a reporter for the Utica Daily Press in 1921. He returned to Hamilton in 1922 where he served as Field Secretary for the Admissions Office, Director of Admissions, Registrar, and Secretary of the College. Other activities of his included serving as charman of the Commencement Committee, and as a member of the Editorial Board of the Alumni Review. His hobbies included the theater, as he taught a theater class for 20 years at Hamilton and was involved in community theater productions, and traveling.