William Mindred Johnson II ’45

Bill died Dec. 7, 1998. He was a resident of Albuquerque. Bill entered Princeton from Hotchkiss, son of George W. Johnson 1898. Bill served as an officer in the 15th Air Force, seeing combat in Italy. At Princeton he wrote for the Tiger and was a member of Cannon Club.

Bill married the former Sally Moore of Birmingham in 1945 and had three daughters, Wendy, Sally, and Deborah. Bill's second wife, the former Sandra Borten of Philadelphia, is the mother of his two sons, William and Anthony, as well as an adopted stepson, Mark. During his working years Bill was in television production and publishing, and before settling into his final career as a psychotherapist, he participated in the 1968 presidential campaign of Eugene McCarthy and was active in the Vietnam antiwar movement. In the summer of 1993, Bill spearheaded a massive project to restore badly eroded beaches on Fire Island, N.Y., where he had summered since the early 1970s. Bill resided in NYC until he retired in 1995, when he moved to Albuquerque. Bill is survived by his ex-wife, Sandy, his five children and four grandchildren, and his former wife from a third marriage, Lois Meredith. The class extends its sympathy to his family.

The Class of 1945

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