VICTOR L
JOHNSON
Victor_L. Johnson, senior vice president.
since 1971 of the Amstar Corporation, died Thursday
in
Newton (N.J.) MemorialHospital following a heart attack. He wa& 62 years old_ and lived at 87 Lafayette Road in Sparta. N.J. . .
Mr. Johnson was chairman of the In- ' ternational · Sugar Research Foundation from 1968 to 1970
and
then a directorof the Sugar Foundation until 1973. He served on the food and nutrition liaison ·
committee of the Nutrition Foundation and on. the industry •liaison panel of the Food and Nutrition Board of the National Academy of Sciences. He was a member of th-e Institute of Food Technofogists.
An engineering graduate
of
Columbia University in 1936, he joined the Ameri-can Suga,r Refining Company, ·now Arn·star, after receivi,ng· his master's degree 1 in chemical engineering in 1937. He be- I came manager of <the company's sugar
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refining operations in 1945· and a vice_president in 1949. · Surviving are a son1 David; two daugh-ters, Linda A. Perkins and Dr. Erica
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Johnson; a brother Horace M.,. an$! fourgrandchildren. ' . · ·
