Life of Caryl Daly Johnson
Caryl Daly Johnson Interviews
The following website is a series of 18 interviews with GiGi/BiCi/AuntCaryl/Mom/Caryl taped from 2020-2022. They hopefully will allow current and subsequent family/extended family members to listen/watch a life spanning ten decades which has been filled with surprises, adventures, accomplishment in so many different orbits - always mixed with love and warm intent from a most loving inspiring thoughtful person who has set the highest bar for all of us regarding what it means to give to others at all times.
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Early Childhood
(3 - 5 years of age)
Mattoon, Urbana, and Aetna Illinois
1933-1935
Early Childhood Years (6-8 years of age)
1936-1938
Move to Gambier Ohio, Kenyon years 1937 - 38. School year 3rd grade. Gambier, living with the Kings 1938 moved to Norman.
Childhood Years
(8-10 years of age)
Grades 4 - 6 Miss Elder’s School
1939-1940
Becoming a Teenager
(10-11 years of age)
1940-1941
Early Adolescent Years in Norman OK
(11-13 years of age)
1941-1943
Adolescent Years in Norman OK
(13-15 years of age)
War years, LWD/Daddy in Army
1943-1945
War finishes, in Norman OK (15-17 years of age) LWD/Daddy returns, Caryl attends Oklahoma University
1945-1947
Undergraduate days U Michigan, Ann Arbor (17-19 years of age)
1947-1949
Student & Musician at
U of Pennsylvania and Philadelphia Conservatory
1949-1950
Move to NYC Undergraduate student at Juilliard
1950-1952
Teaching in Stamford, Low Heywood School and shift to being wife and mother
1952-1954
Move back to Juilliard
1954-1959
Move back to Juilliard NYC 540 W 122nd St 1954 when chosen for Fellowship in Literature and Music (L&M) Dept and in 1956 added to Literature and Materials faculty.
More Responsibilities at Juilliard, and Nurturing Twins and Newborn (1960)
in NYC/Move to
Englewood NJ
1959-1966
Move to Baltimore for Position as Head of Prep Division at the Peabody Institute
1968-1970
A New Life with Horton
1970-1984
The years in Long Island, Indianapolis including Hospital volunteer then OT school, before New Orleans and clinical OT work.
Enjoying life in Englewood, New York City, and Old Saybrook while practicing as a hand therapist
1984-2021
Professional Life in Music: Faculty
1955-1971
Faculty in Dept. Literature and Materials of Music at Juilliard 1955-1968, and Faculty and Administration at Peabody Institute 1968-1971.
Professional Life as a Hand Therapist
1979-2021
Occupational therapist, Certified Hand therapist.
1979 - 1984. Touro Infirmary, New Orleans
1984 - 2011 Private practice within Hand Surgery Center NY, NY
2011 - 2021. Private practice, Independent office. NY, NY.
Family Zoom Christmas
2020