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Sarah has two new honors for 2006. She was recently honored for her innovations in university dining in Food Management magazine. Sarah also received the Helen B. Scheleman Gold Medallion Award for 2006.
Sarah Johnson is Director of Dining
Services for Purdue University Residences. She has
spent her entire career at Purdue quickly moving from Food
Supervisor to Food Manager in 1973 to Director of Dining
Services in 1987. As Director, she has moved Purdue
Residences to a new era of dining services by the innovation
and development of a food court system to promote efficiency
and meet the changing food preferences of this generation
of college students.
After receiving
her B.S. in dietetics at Purdue, she did a dietetic internship
at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics. She
stayed to complete a Masters in nutrition with an emphasis
on administrative dietetics, finishing a semester after
she began her first position at Purdue.
Her excellence
has been recognized by professional organizations, her colleagues
and the students she serves. Beginning early, she
was chosen Young Dietitian of Indiana in 1975. The
National Association of College and University Food Services
awarded her the NACUFS Citation for Meritorious Service
and the Region IV President’s Award two times.
She was chosen for the Special Boilermaker Award presented
by Purdue Alumni Association in 2000 and the Amelia Earhart
Hall of Fame Award in 1994. Other honors she has been
given: Honorary Membership in Tau Beta Sigma Band Sorority,
Honorary Member of Tomahawk, Wava Banes Turner Award (service
to Tau Beta Sigma, presented at National Convention), Purdue
Student Government Citation of Advisor Excellence and she
was a Hidden Diamond for the Consumer and Family Science
75th Anniversary.
She has been active
in professional organizations, holding offices and serving
on committees. She was chair of the Food Service Management
Internship Committee of the Association of College and University
Housing Officers and the National Association of College
and University Food Services from 1997-2001, as well as
NACUFS Liaison for ACUHO-1 for the same period. She
has been active in the American Dietetic Association, as
well as the Indiana Dietetic Association and the Western
Indiana Dietetic Association. She has been president
twice of the Kappa Omicron Nu Alumni Chapter of North Central
Indiana and has served as treasurer for this organization
since 1995.
Her community
activities have been focused on Altrusa International of
Lafayette and Central Presbyterian Church of Lafayette.
She has been president of Altrusa twice and the board of
directors twice and she has served on her church Board of
Deacons and the Board of Trustees. Because of her
commitment, she has held many positions of leadership and
service in both groups.
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