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Thursday, August 7, 2008

Longtime DU faculty member passes away

James “JJ” Johnston thought if you were going to connect with students, it was probably a good idea to first learn their names.

Johnston made it a point to learn the names of every student during the first week of class, even filing note cards with biographical information for each student he had over the years — all 30,000 of them.

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