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Just checked my email and saw this from our coach:
It is with great sadness that we share the news of Ron Johnson. Ron Johnson passed away suddenly on Friday evening. We will share funeral service and other details as we get them. Please keep Ron and his family in your thoughts.
I saw Ron not long ago, swimming at the ASU Mona Plummer pool, just before a noon workout. He looked as good as ever.
I'll certainly never forget my first workout with Sun Devil Masters. Ron was in the pool, doing 1-1 coaching, while the other coach was up on deck giving the workout. He will certainly be missed.
I first met Ron in the fall of 1975 as a swimmer at ASU. He had been hired as an interim coach after the sudden retirement of Walt Schleuter. Ron was then, and continued to be as long as I knew him, a gentleman and scholar of swimming. He always had a quick smile and interesting stories. I cannot remember him ever cursing aloud, although in those days I gave him every reason to do so. He got into the pool and played water polo with us and ran on the same course we did for our cross training workouts.
I was stunned and saddened to hear of his passing and am sorry not to be able to attend the memorial, as is my co-captain and roommate in college, Scott Townsend.
Ron is no longer with us, but the impact of his life will be felt for a very long time by those of us who knew him and those yet to start swimming.
I first met Ron in the fall of 1975 as a swimmer at ASU. He had been hired as an interim coach after the sudden retirement of Walt Schleuter. Ron was then, and continued to be as long as I knew him, a gentleman and scholar of swimming. He always had a quick smile and interesting stories. I cannot remember him ever cursing aloud, although in those days I gave him every reason to do so. He got into the pool and played water polo with us and ran on the same course we did for our cross training workouts.
I was stunned and saddened to hear of his passing and am sorry not to be able to attend the memorial, as is my co-captain and roommate in college, Scott Townsend.
Ron is no longer with us, but the impact of his life will be felt for a very long time by those of us who knew him and those yet to start swimming.
