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Johnson & Johnson employees celebrate the 125th anniversary of Johnson & Johnson As readers of Kilmer House know, Johnson & Johnson is celebrating its 125th anniversary this year.  Our employees across the world have been acknowledging this milestone anniversary in a variety of ways in their operating companies -- as well as some of their individual operating company anniversaries that also fall this year.  These ongoing events in 2011 are maintaining an anniversary tradition at Johnson & Johnson that goes back 105 years. 105 Years Ago: Johnson & Johnson celebrated its 20th

We know that Johnson & Johnson employees had The Laurel Club, an organization for women employees formed in 1907 whose members started the tradition of Johnson & Johnson employees exercising at work and volunteering in the community.  And employees formed a very popular Glee Club, which performed on the radio and sang with a movie star.  But they also formed a wide variety of other clubs, too, and in the 1940s through 1960s, if there was an interest among Johnson & Johnson Family of Companies employees, there was probably an employee club to go with it. The Nut & Bolt Club, one

High school students taking over Johnson & Johnson for a day?  A seventeen-year old Chairman and CEO sitting at General Robert Wood Johnson’s desk?  What on earth was going on at Johnson & Johnson in the late 1940s and the 1950s?  It was all part of a program called A Day in Modern Industry…an early cousin to today’s Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work events. High School students at Johnson & Johnson for the A Day in Modern Industry Program Johnson & Johnson started the A Day in Modern Industry program in 1947 and, like the invention of BAND-AID® Brand Adhesive Bandages, it wa

Members of the Johnson & Johnson Women’s Basketball Team, 1946-1947 champions of the New Brunswick Industrial League As a company that will be 125 years old in 2011, Johnson & Johnson has many traditions:  some recent, and some dating back almost to our founding.  One of the most fun traditions throughout our history has been our employee athletes and sports teams. The Johnson & Johnson Employee Baseball Team: Our Earliest Employee Team For well over 100 years, employees at Johnson & Johnson have participated in organized sports.  The earliest record we have of our employee ath

Joyce Kilmer, son of Scientific Director Fred Kilmer and occasional writer for early Johnson & Johnson publications On this Veteran’s Day and Remembrance Day, Kilmer House salutes veterans across the world. Since the Spanish American War in 1898, Johnson & Johnson and its operating companies around the world have had many employees who have served, and continue to serve, their countries in the military.  To honor our employee veterans and their family members, here are some photos from our archives of employee veterans from our early history. To read some of their stories,