Bonnie Beecher

Bonnie Jean Beecher, née Boettcher, and later known as Jahanara Romney, (born April 25, 1941), is an American activist, and retired television actress and singer. She was active as an actress in the 1960s and appeared in such television series as Peyton Place (1965), The Fugitive (1966), and Cowboy in Africa (1968).

Beecher was born in 1941 in Minneapolis, Minnesota to Art and Jean Boettcher.

She made her television debut in 1964 in an episode of The Twilight Zone, "Come Wander with Me". She also played Sylvia, love interest of Chekov (played by Walter Koenig), in "Spectre of the Gun", an episode of Star Trek wherein the crew of the Enterprise re-enacts the gunfight at the OK Corral.

Her last television credit was an episode of The Outsider in 1968, in which she played Gloria Gronowski alongside Darren McGavin. 

Beecher knew Bob Dylan during his early career, they dated briefly in college, and she may have been the inspiration for his song "Girl from the North Country" however alternatively it may have been about his high school girlfriend, Echo Helstrom Casey or another college-era girlfriend Suze Rotolo. Beecher's singing is heard on the 1960 bootleg recording of Bob Dylan known as the "Minneapolis Party Tape", which was recorded while they were dating. It was also rumored that some of Dylan's earliest recordings in 1961 were recorded at her Minneapolis home.

Beecher married Wavy Gravy (born Hugh Romney) on May 22, 1967. She adopted the name Jahanara Romney shortly after marriage. The couple has a son together, born in 1971 as Howdy Do-Good Gravy Tomahawk Truckstop Romney, who has since become known as Jordan Romney.

She has worked as Administrative Director (under the name Jahanara Romney) of Camp Winnarainbow since 1983. Her husband (under the name Wavy Gravy) serves as director of the camp, which is located near Laytonville, Mendocino County in Northern California.