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 and lovingly about his family.
"How many 22-year-old guys who are bigwigs working at Salomon Brothers meet a girl and talk about their family and taking a vacation to visit their grandmother?" Betsy Johnston said in an interview. "We started dating right after that."
Johnston,…
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 and lovingly about his family.
"How many 22-year-old guys who are bigwigs working at Salomon Brothers meet a girl and talk about their family and taking a vacation to visit their grandmother?" Betsy Johnston said in an interview. "We started dating right after that."
Johnston,…