Johnson, Collus Oliver
Collus Oliver Johnson was born December 7, 1905 in Sardis, Tennessee. He completed high school in Lexington, Tennessee, received the B.S. degree from the University of Tennessee in 1931, the M.S. from the University of Tennessee in 1948, and the Ed.S. from Peabody College for Teachers in 1960. He began his career as a teacher and principal of various schools in Tennessee. He later served with the Tennessee Valley Authority as a population readjustment coordinator and as an agriculturalist. During World War II he was a First Lieutenant in the U.S. Army. From 1948 to 1951 he served as an area coordinator working in the fields of resource use and community education and community development as a member of the faculty of Murray State College, Murray, Kentucky. Collus came to West Georgia College in 1951 as Associate Professor of Education and Associate Director of Adult Education and served as such until 1964. As Associate Director of Adult Education he was a leader of "College in the Country" and arranged studycades for the community to various national and international locations. From 1967 until 1972 he was Director of Continuing Education. In 1972 he was promoted to Professor of Education. He retired in 1973.
Johnson served for two years as president of the Georgia Gerontology Society. For several years he was on the Board of Managers of both the Georgia and Kentucky Congresses of Parents and Teachers. He was active in the Adult Education Association of the U.S.A., the Georgia Teacher Education Council, the National Association of Public School Educators, the Rural Education Association of the National Education Association, and was a Regional Representative on the Executive Committee of the National Education Association. He attended numerous professional meetings and conferences, including the 1950 White House Conference on Children and Youth. He was a member of the Sigma Nu Fraternity, Phi Delta Kappa, the Carroll Service Council, and Georgia's Silver Haired Legislature, serving as a Senator. A member of the Kiwanis Club for 35 years, in 1988 he received the Legion of Honor. He was a member of the First United Methodist Church, where he had served on the Administrative Board, as Sunday School teacher, in the church choir, was an honorary life member of the Methodist Rural Fellowship of the North Georgia Conference, on the Lay Life and Work Committee in the Rome District, and numerous other church committees. In 1973 he was presented the Delbert Clark Award in Adult Education as well as the Honorary Alumnus Award from the West Georgia College Alumni Association. Also in 1973 he was honored by the Georgia Adult Education Council with its Annual Adult Education Award. He was a recipient of the Thank You Award from the Georgia Association of Retarded Citizens and was serving on the University System Committee on Public Service and working with the literacy programs in five counties and the Adventures in Living Series at the time of his death on December 20, 1990. His wife, Eugenia Caldwell Johnson, died in 2004. They are survived by three children: Mrs. Paul Brown of Marietta, Georgia, Tom Johnson of Carrollton, and Dr. Gene Johnson of Stevens Point, Wisconsin.
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