CHAPTER 10
Join the Club! Early Social Life at J&J
By
Margaret
Gurowitz
Aug 09, 2006
Early Johnson & Johnson employees belonged to a variety of social clubs and groups, and took a wide range of classes offered by the Company. The Company organized classes in hygiene, gymnastics, millinery (hat making), embroidery and English instruction. At one point, up to two-thirds of our early employees were Hungarian immigrants, and employee notices and signs had to be written in both English and Hungarian. Circa 1907, women employees at Johnson & Johnson had a basketball team, a Glee Club and a lending library, and also did charity work at a local New Brunswick orphanage. Male employees belonged to clubs as well – as these photos from the “J&J Hikerage Club" show.
