:: History Site Index
:: Historical Overview
:: Timeline of Events
:: Hall of Presidents

:: USF Site & Name
:: John Allen Legacy
:: 40 Years of Memories
:: Named Buildings & Sites
:: Medical School History
:: Medicine's 1st 25 years
:: Marshall Center History
:: Early Women's Athletics
:: Student Trends
:: Snow at USF!

:: 1st Student
:: 1st Professor
:: 1st Basketball Team
:: 1st Football Team
:: 1st Marching Band
:: 1st Years of The Oracle
:: 1st Trustees

:: USF Sarasota/Manatee
:: USF St Petersburg
:: USF Lakeland

:: Traditions Overview
:: Alma Mater
:: Academic Mace
:: USF Seal & Symbols

:: Rocky the Bull
:: Herd of Thunder

:: Homecoming
:: Student Gov. Ceremony
:: Bull Market
:: Movies On The Lawn
:: "Go Bulls" Hand Symbol
:: Retired Athletic Jerseys

Barbara Campbell Johnson: Student #00001
published summer 1995 by Lynn Rothman, USF Magazine Editor

Back then she was Barbara Campbell. Married with children. Twenty-two years old. A native of Tampa, she grew up in Tampa Heights and graduated from Jefferson High School in 1956.

"When they (USF) announced they were accepting applications, my mother said you need to apply," she says. "I never thought I'd be a teacher. When the opportunity to attend college was presented, it seemed like a logical thing to do."

Today she is Barbara Johnson, a third grade teacher at Yates Elementary School in Brandon. Campbell/Johnson has the distinction of being student #00001 at USF.

The first of many non-traditional students, Johnson recalls that even then the majority of students were commuters and many were married with families.

Back in the early days, when "there wasn't even grass," Johnson says that one of the advantages of being an early student was that "many of our professors were deans" since there were so few key people in place. Among the 326 graduates of that first class of 1963, 205 were woman; 200 class members were certified as teachers. Johnson states that many of these young teachers today hold prominent positions throughout the Hillsborough County School System.

Johnson has been a continuous member of the Alumni Association and looks forward to USF getting a football team.

"I'm grateful to USF," she says. I would not have been able to obtain my degree to teach without it."