Hall of Fame
Harold Johnson was a member of the basketball team and earned All-SIAC honors in 1961. He was also named to the All-NAIA District Six All-Star Team. During the Colleges of South Carolina Tournament, he averaged more than 44 points per game in three games and was named MVP.
After graduating, he was drafted by the Orlando Floridians of the American Professional Basketball League.
Following basketball, he started his career at the New York City Housing Authority Louis H. Pink Houses as a teenage afterschool program director. He also served as a substitute teacher, and later was hired as Dean of Students in Brooklyn, N.Y. In 1976, he was hired as a disciplinarian dean at Englewood Middle School in New Jersey. In 1981, he became an assistant principal in Dwight Morrow High School, where he also coached basketball, softball and volleyball. He also directed the Urban League teenage afterschool program for six years.
He retired in 2002 after 39 years in education, and moved to Atlanta, Ga.
