Local Interview, Bill Johnston

LIFE LESSONS: College Senior Talks with Senior Citizens

Bill Johnston, age 69, was born in Port Angeles, and later moved to Tacoma where he now resides. Johnston worked as a union organizer and ran political campaigns in his working years, until retiring at the age of 57. Johnston has been married for 48 years, with 2 children and 3 grandchildren who take up a lot of his time. He studies genealogy as a hobby. “I don’t understand people who say, ‘When I retired, I got bored.’ I have not been bored one day!”