Brotherly love supports teaching internships [Video]

ABOUT THE NURTURING INNOVATION CAMPAIGN

Helen Johnson spent four years in first grade. The first two she struggled; the last two she shined. That’s what Helen’s twin brother would tell you. So would she, for that matter.

Dr. Harold and Helen Johnson were raised in a simple home in Hamburg, N.Y. Although they were twins, Harold graduated high school a year before Helen. “She repeated first grade, because she didn’t learn to read,” Harold explained. “Our mother felt it was essential because there was a lot of twins in her family, for us to be separated.”  

After graduating high school, Helen received a scholarship to attend Fredonia, which she graduated from in 1952. After graduation, she became an elementary school teacher.

Her first two years, she taught first grade.

She went on to teach third grade for several years, before settling into fourth grade. It was while Helen was teaching fourth grade in her hometown of Hamburg in 1972 that the Fredonia-Hamburg Internship …