BORN IN 1930's, TED JOHNSTONE, son of a country doctor, grew up on a farm near the small town of Handord, California. Ted was the third of four children, the eldest of whom was Dorothy, who had graduated from medical school and finished her internship just before their father's untimely death at age 56 in 1949. She took over the medical practice and Ted, at 17, took over the family farm, running the dairy, growing cotton, and attending school all at the same time. Six years later in 1955, he graduated from college with a B.A. degree with a major in chemistry and a minor in physics. Graduation from medical school occured four years later in 1959, followed by a rotating internship. From there he joined his sister, Dorothy Johnstone Smith, M.D., in practive in Handford. Dorothy died unexpectedly in 1965. Ted and his wife Kitsy, then decided for him to accept a position as a medical doctor overseas and she as a nurse. They served together in two countries, Nigeria and Ghana, for 18 months. Then Ted, Kitsy, and their four daughters returned to the U.S. and in 1968 settled in Madera California, where Ted went into private practice. Kitsy, after more training as a family nurse practitioner, later joined him in a practice limited to pediatrics. Ted is now retired from medical practice, formally having been a member of the Fresno - Madera medical Society and on the Medical Staff of the Madera Community Hospital. All four daughters have college degrees and between them have four masters degrees, one RN, and one PhD. They also have presented their parents with four grandchildren.
