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Student Killed

December 1933
Article
Student Killed
December 1933

John A. Johnson '36, of Brooklyn, N. Y., was killed instantly in an automobile crash which occurred November 17 on the same dangerous curve near Windsor, Vt., where Richard Y. Pickering '36 and Charles H. Vincent '36 had their fatal accident just a month before. Henry P. Molloy Jr. '37, of Brooklyn, N. Y., who was driving back to Hanover with Johnson, miraculously escaped injury when the car shot off the road, turned several complete somersaults, and landed upside down with Johnson pinned at the wheel.

The two students had been visiting friends in Claremont, N. H., and were hur- rying back to Hanover when the accident occurred at 12.15 a.m. Johnson was near- sighted and this is believed to have been the reason for his failure to slow down in time to make the sharp curve. He was 19 years old and had recently been pledged to the Zeta Psi fraternity. Last year Johnson was a leading member of the freshman golf team and had won his numerals.