CLASS OF 1915

Paul Willey Johnson died of pulmonary tuberculosis at his home in Randolph, Vt., July 6. Toward the close of his senior year he had serious trouble with the glands of his neck, which made necessary a severe operation. During the summer he seemed to regain his health, and in October he took up the work of local reporter and office assistant in his father's newspaper office. This work he was obliged to relinquish in the winter of 1916, on the return of serious symptoms of disease. From this time he made a brave fight for health, spending some months at the state sanatorium at Pittsford, but returning home in March last.

He had shown a decided fitness for his chosen work, and wrote freely and well on current topics. From his sickbed after he left the office he wrote not a few editorial articles showing unusual vigor of thought and expression. Attractive in his personal qualities, he made many friends. His brave and cheerful contest with the enemy whose strength he recognized from the first was something to be long remembered.

Paul Johnson was the elder of two sons of Luther Burnham and Martha A. (Willey) Johnson, and was born in Northfield, Vt., July 16, 1892. From 1894 his home had been in Randolph, where he graduated from the high school in 1911.