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over to out-of-school activities as well. “I don’t know how many children she taught who, when they got married, called on her to decorate for their weddings,” Mrs. Snead said.
She noted that Mrs. Johnston gets asked frequently to do posters for county organizations or flower arrangements for special occasions. “People call on her all the time, and she stays in the background, not taking any credit.”
During her teaching years, Mrs. Johnston was also active in community affairs. She served on the famous all-woman Town Council in Washington in the 1950s. Together with the rest of that council, she travelled to New York and was introduced on the television program “The Big Surprise” when Mayor Dorothy Davis appeared as a contestant.
Active in Trinity Episcopal Church, she served a term on the vestry. She has been a member of the Rappahannock-Rapidan Community Services Board and did a term on the School Trustee Electoral Board. She has been an active participant in the Culpeper Minutemen chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution, serving on the committee that selects the good citizens from among area school children every year.
In 1977, when Mrs. Snead retired, Mrs. Johnston did also. Her husband was very ill. “I missed the children,” she said, but she decided she was needed more at home.
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