A Friend of the Disabled

Abstract

Faculty and students of Beirut University College in the forties and fifties, when it was successively called «American Junior College» and «Beirut College for Women», will surely remember a lively teacher who, besides her multiple talents and varied intellectual interests, had an unusual ability to befriend everyone. A gifted pianist, a teacher of humanities,
Esther Johnson was also a dynamic social worker, a believer in a humane socialism which she tried to put into practice and did not restrict to mere talk.