James T. and Emily S. Johnson Scholarships

 2007 Highlights

Elizabeth Almond and Devin Gottschalk were awarded scholarships this year.  They both will attend Washington State University next year.

2006 Highlights

The Johnson's awarded two new scholarships and renewed one other in 2006. 

Brian Parrott is a new recipient of the James T. and Emily S. Johnson Scholarship.  He graduated from North Kitsap High School in 2006 as a National Merit Scholar with a 4.0 gpa.  Brian plans to study biomedical engineering, with an emphasis on prosthetics. He was offered entrance at M.I.T. but he chose to attend the University of Washington because he was able to begin research in his area of interest this summer.

Ava Heston had an impressive 3.9 gpa, which she has earned while working 30 hours a week at Target and supported herself in her own apartment in Bremerton.

Ella Sanman's scholarship was renewed for her sophomore year at Santa Clara University where she earned a 3.2 gpa in her freshman year while competing on the school golf team.

The scholarships are for graduating North Kitsap School District seniors who have at least a 3.0 cumulative GPA, plan to study math or science in college, and have demonstrated need for financial support to pursue their college education.  The scholarships are renewable with a yearly application.

In 2005 three scholarships of $5,000 each were awarded, one of which was a renewal of a scholarship given in 2004.

James T. Johnson Biography

After getting his BS and MS degrees from Iowa State, Jim Johnson spent the next 28 years with the Boeing Company, starting out as an aerospace engineer and rising to the position of Vice President of Engineering and Product Development and later to Vice President and General Manager of the Renton Division and the Everett Division, where the Boeing 747, 767 and 777 were produced.  In 1993, he left Boeing and became President of the Large Commercial Engine Group of Pratt and Whitney, a division of United Technologies, and in 1994, he became President of GE Capital Aviation Services, a holding of General Electric.  In 1997, he moved to Gulfstream Aerospace Corporation, where he served as President and Chief Operating Officer until his retirement.  Jim currently serves as the Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Museum of Flight in Seattle.  He is an Alfred P. Sloan Fellow and earned an MBA from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1977.   He is a fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics and the Royal Aeronautical Society.