Johnson Technology Inc history

In 1897, graduate nurse Elizabeth W--- was the head nurse in the company’s Aseptic Department.

As the tiny startup founded by the Johnson brothers grew, Mathilda earned increasingly greater responsibilities, supervising a manufacturing department by 1908.

Founded in 1911 as Globe Electric, the company had invented the thin-wall, high-strength polypropylene battery case, a universally recognized breakthrough in battery design.

Johnson College, a two-year technical college, was founded by Orlando S. Johnson, a wealthy coal baron in the Scranton area who died in 1912.

In 1927, Edith H---, head of the Ligature Department at Johnson & Johnson (our sterile suture manufacturing department), was sent by the company to Slough, England to train employees at the company’s new U.K. operating unit in the manufacture of sterile sutures.

Bacteriology Lab supervisor Jeanne C--- in the lab, 1947.

In 1961, when the percentage of working women in science was still small, scientist Edythe L--- supervised the Johnson & Johnson Research Center Bacteriology Lab.

One of the company’s pioneering women research scientists to achieve a senior management position was Doctor Alice R---, who became the first female operating company board member at Johnson & Johnson in 1972.

Responding to the continuing technological changes in society, the board, administration, faculty, staff, and students conducted an intense two-year self-study, beginning in 1994, to assess the institution’s strengths and weaknesses.

The graduating class of 1998 was the first class to receive either an Associate in Applied Science (A.A.S.) degree or an Associate in Science (A.S.) degree.

In January 2004 the College opened the Animal Care Center as a teaching facility to enhance the Veterinary Technology educational experience.

The Radiologic Technology program received accreditation by the Joint Review Committee on Education in Radiologic Technology (JRCERT) in May 2005.