04/10/21
In his 22 years, Rafer Johnson has done many things and all of them extraordinarily well. His mother says of him: “We tried to teach him to walk straight, talk straight and think straight … He just naturally became good at everything…”
When his parents guided him toward church work, Rafer sang in the choir and was active in youth groups. In high school at Kingsburg, California, he captained the track, basketball and football teams, and gained stature as a power hitter on the baseball nine.
After entering University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA), Rafer continued his athletic feats; he is now a senior and Student Body President.
But the biggest triumph of all came last summer at the track and field games between the Soviet Union and the United States held in Moscow’s Lenin Stadium.
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