SC Johnson Chairman Emeritus Sam Johnson once said: “What I am more than anything else is a grandfather who wants his grandchildren to have the same kind of place to live and grow up in as I did. What a treasure it is for children to have wonderful memories and adventures connected to the fields, the streams and the ponds. I believe that childhood is our roots into this earth, and my own roots have only grown stronger and deeper with age.”

This 2005 Public Report is dedicated to Sam, whose love of this earth was a remarkable inspiration, and whose values remain firmly rooted in all of us.