'All means all'

Dr. William Johnson honored by the RVC Education Foundation

Posted Thursday, April 7, 2022 10:24 am

Dr. William Johnson and his wife Mary Ann at the Allegria Hotel in Long Beach as the RVC Education Foundation honored the former for his 34 years as superintendent of the Rockville Centre School District.

Courtesy Zoe Moore

Dr. Johnson gives his speech next to Rockville Centre Teachers’ Association President Frank Van Zant.

Courtesy Sasha Katsman

William S. Covert Elementary School principal Darren Raymar presents Dr. Johnson with a plaque from the Education Foundation that Johnson helped start in the 1990s.

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Village of Rockville Centre Trustee Emilio Grillo, Mayor Francis Murray, and Deputy Mayor Kathy Baxley present Dr. Johnson with a proclamation.

Courtesy Melkis Lopez

Dr. Johnson’s family: son Bill, grandson Nicholas, wife Mary Ann, son Tom, and grandson Robert join him after his speech.

Tom Carrozza/Herald

By Tom Carrozza

The RVC Education Foundation recognized one of the Rockville Centre School District’s most important innovators at its 30th Annual Fundraising Gala on Sunday.

More than a hundred guests came to the Allegria Hotel in Long Beach pay tribute to a giant in the school community, Dr. William Johnson. Johnson served as the district’s superintendent for 34 years before departing for Hempstead in 2020.

Johnson helped to create the RVC Education Foundation in the early 1990s, the first organization of its kind in New York, with the goal of expanding access to quality education to poor and special education populations in the district.

“All means all” was a common saying of Johnson’s, so much so that as William S. Covert Elementary School principal Darren Raymar began to say the phrase during his remarks the rest of the crowd in the ballroom of the hotel joined in unison.

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