Word: johnstons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fascinates his Dartmouth students. "I don't go overboard about biography, so to speak, but I think Edel's psychological method offers interesting insights," says Senior Peter Tagge. An ardent sailor, Tagge is writing for his course project a profile of round-the-world Sailor Robin Knox-Johnston. Diane Kilpatrick, a psychologist at Dartmouth's student health center, was also drawn by Edel's analytic method. When Edel proved at the first session to be "a fascinating storyteller," she juggled her schedule so that she could audit the course and has attended "religiously" ever since...
Died. Velma ("Wild Horse Annie") Johnston, 65, redoubtable leader of the campaign to preserve wild-horse herds in the West; apparently of cancer; in Reno. Johnston's lobbying efforts resulted in the 1959 "Wild Horse Annie Law," a federal statute prohibiting the hunting of wild horses from aircraft and trucks, and the 1971 "Wild Free Roaming Horse and Burro Act," which gave the animals further protection. She was president of both WHOA (Wild Horse Organized Assistance Inc.) and the International Society for the Protection of Mustangs and Burros...
...Beth Johnston and her roommate were still arguing about whether to take the bunkbed apart and sacrifice the limited floor space in their freshman dorm when Jeff Robinson knocked at the door. Eight years had lapsed since Jeff's family left the Wisconsin town Beth grew up in and she probably wouldn't have remembered him if she hadn't once seen him throw a water balloon at their Sunday school principal. Their families still exchanged Christmas cards and Jeff was dutifully obeying maternal commandment to "check up on little Bethie" during her first week at Harvard...
Other Crimson notables included Ed Ajootian, whose best hammer throw of the day on Friday sailed over the 190 mark to earn him a fourth place berth in that event, which was won by his old nemesis Bill Johnston of Northeastern. Ajootian bested Johnston on the final throw in last year's competition...
...Jill Johnston--Emerson...