Hooks Johnston, local venture capitalist and philanthropist, dies at 55

When Betsy Edmunds met her future husband, Hooks Johnston, through friends at a bar in New York City in 1985, she couldn't believe two things about this tired and overworked investment banker — his name and how he spoke so earnestly about his family. "How many 22-year-old guys who are bigwigs working at Salomon Brothers meet a girl and talk about their grandmother and their sister?" Betsy Johnston said in an interview. "We started dating right after that." Johnston, a venture capital ist, corporate…
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