Virginia Good

Ginny Good, Point Loma high School class of 1959

Virginia Dixon Good (Ginny) (Born March 5th 1941) was the second of three sisters. Her younger sister, Sandra Good, was an associate of Charles Manson. There is evidence to suggest that she was the among the first person to be called a "hippie", and probably the first person to be called that in print.

She was born in San Diego, California and graduated from Point Loma High School in 1959.

Her mother and father, George F. Good, were divorced when Ginny was five. She briefly attended Sarah Lawrence College, where she roommates with Jill Clayburgh.

After a failed relationship in New York, she moved to San Francisco in 1962 where she attended San Francisco State College.

She was part of the early sixties San Francisco music scene and used to hang out with various bands including The Charlatans and Jefferson Airplane at The Matrix when it was still a pizza parlor on Fillmore Street.

There is anecdotal evidence that she was officially "the first hippie," as documented in the narrative nonfiction book titled Ginny Good.

"There's a picture of her in the school paper at San Francisco State: The Gater. The picture was taken in the spring of 1963. Ginny's dancing on the lawn across from the library; her hair's kind of in her face, but you can still tell it's her. Jim Moss is in the background, egging her on. And the first time the word "hippie" was used to describe the sort of person who we all know now as a "hippie" was in the caption to that picture. She may even have had some flowers in her hair..."

She had close ties to Hank Harrison, manager of The Grateful Dead when they were called "The Warlocks" and used to babysit for Hank's daughter, Courtney Love. He said this about her:

"..."this woman was, although petite in appearance, bigger than life. Anyone who knew her knew she was a big deal on a small planet...she was, without doubt, the quintessential bohemian princess."

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She was also an associate of Samuel L. Lewis, "Sufi Sam," who gave her the name "Mumtaz."

Ginny died of a drug overdose in 1982.

"...I knew her well enough to know that killing herself would have been more along the lines of an accident. She had tried to kill herself hundreds of times by then; she'd been trying to kill herself since she was six. I don't think she thought she was ever actually going to die."

Further reading

everyonewhosanyone.com Amazon Review by Hank Harrison

Photo Courtesy of Point Loma