Historical November–December 2004 article. Dates, prices, services and contacts describe the source period; current availability has not been established.
This is an overdue remembrance of a special woman devoted to her university and also devoted to the neighborhood where she lived and which she served. Sara Johnson, representing Washington University, came on the Skinker DeBaliviere Community Council in the early 1990s.
She was tall and lithe and basically quiet but she had a knack for the right phrase at the right time.
A resident of Parkview, she did all that she could to enhance our neighborhood and to facilitate towngown relations.
I respected her composure and got to enjoy her company at a couple lunches.
She had done her undergraduate work at Wash U and returned in 1989 to work for then Chancellor William Danforth.
When Danforth retired, she continued for two years as an aide to his successor, Mark Wrighton.
She then assumed the position of Associate Dean of Arts and Sciences.
She was very devoted to the students and to the university.
She was 47 when she passed away this spring, a victim of a rare cancer. Washington University lost a partisan as did our neighborhood.
She will be remembered well by all who knew her here.
Originally published in The Times of Skinker-DeBaliviere, November–December 2004.
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