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"Doc" Thurston dies, age 70

by Kris Molle

last update: Apr 01, 2008 10:21 AM

He was one of 12 crewmembers on the original Greenpeace campaign. Lyle Thurston died of pneumonia last week at the age of 70 in Victoria, BC, Canada.

In 1971, he was one of the crewmembers on the "Phyllis Cormack", where he served for two months as a medic.  It was the first Greenpeace campaign. He was a devout environmental activist and helped to establish the first Greenpeace group in London. In 1979, he co-founded Greenpeace International.

Bob Hunter, a fellow Greenpeace environmental activist once said of Thurston, "He always made new recruits feel welcome, and knew how to make protest fun. Thurston knew how to lift people's spirits."

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Greenpeace.Org
 
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