Lawrence Today magazine, Spring 2005
William Johnson, formerly vice president and chief development officer at
Hiram College, has been named associate vice president for development and
alumni relations at Lawrence and began his new duties on March 1.
Reporting to Gregory Volk, executive vice president, Johnson is responsible
for managing the college’s major and planned giving programs, corporate
and foundation relations, annual giving, donor relations, and development information
and systems support, as well as alumni relations.
As Hiram’s chief development officer, a position he had held since 2003,
Johnson oversaw all development operations, including the direction of a $53.5
million capital campaign currently in progress. Prior to Hiram, he spent nine
years as the associate vice president for major gifts at Carthage College;
he also has served as director of corporate relations at the Fuqua School of
Business at Duke University and spent three years as director of development
and public relations for the Iowa Special Olympics. He began his fund-raising
career in 1982 as the assistant director of development at Wartburg College,
his undergraduate alma mater.