Mal Johnson, of Bronxville, N.Y., a retired lawyer, former class vice president, and organizer and host for several years of our class luncheons at the Princeton Club of New York, died of a heart attack April 16, 2008, two weeks before his 95th birthday.
Besides singing for more than 40 years in his church choir, Mal was active delivering meals to AIDS patients, as a government-relations adviser and bioethics-committee member of Jansen Memorial Hospice, and as a board and finance-committee member of the Home Nursing Association of Westchester County (president for five years).
Mal was a partner and founding principal of the New York law firm of Everett, Johnson & Breckinridge. He was chairman for 17 years of the tax and legislative committee of the Society of Insurance Accountants and recipient of its accountant of the year award in 1972. In World War II he won two Navy commendations for radar picket duty at Okinawa. In 1983 he won our outstanding achievement award and was hailed as “hearty, gregarious, upbeat.”
“My real driving force in life,” he once wrote, “is Janet and my family, and I have to include the Princeton family in this.”
Surviving are Mal’s wife of 68 years, the former Janet Morse; two daughters; and two sons, one of whom is M. Davis ’66.