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Dan Johnson to deliver BYU devotional address June 2

Dan Johnson, assistant dean in the College of Physical and Mathematical Sciences at Brigham Young University, will speak at a devotional Tuesday, June 2, at 11:05 a.m. in the Joseph Smith Building auditorium.

The devotional will be broadcast live on the BYU Broadcasting channels. Visit byub.org/devotionals or speeches.byu.edu for rebroadcast and archive information.

Johnson joined BYU’s Computer Science Department in 1983 after 18 years in industry with U.S. Steel, Geneva Works as an operations analyst and production planner, and at Signetics Corporation as a production supervisor and material control manager.

He has served on the Provo City Planning Commission and the Board of Adjustment and is the chair of the Provo Metropolitan Water Board. In addition, he served as the Training Noncommissioned Officer for a Utah National Guard Combat Engineering Company during the Vietnam era.

He received a bachelor’s degree in human resource development from BYU.

Writer: Angela Fischer

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