Lt. J. Henry Johnston, UNC Professor, Was Killed Overseas, Oct. 15, 1918

From The University of North Carolina News Letter, Chapel Hill, N.C., Jan. 22, 1919

J. Henry Johnston

In the death of J. Henry Johnston, Associate Professor of Education in the University of North Carolina, this institution loses the first member of its faculty in service overseas and suffers a distinct loss in its teaching staff. The following editorial note taken from the Raleigh Times of November 12^th happily estimates the value of his fine young life:

In the death of Lieutenant Henry Johnston, killed in action October 15^th, North Carolina loses another of her fine, clean young men and the State University a member of its faculty who showed great promise.

Not yet 30, Associate Professor of Education Johnston had begun to make his presence felt in education in his native State when the call came for him to go into training for the purpose of hammering home some of the vital truths of civilization into the head of the Hun. Henry Johnston was one of the first to apply for admittance to the officers training camp at Fort Oglethorpe.

There he made good—a habit of his this making good—although he was ever quiet about it. Modest always, even to diffidence if no principle were involved, and then as inflexible as steel, he was not the sort to attract attention in a crowd; but those whose business it is to know would never overlook him anywhere.

Particulars concerning his death are lacking, but none who knew him need be told that he died as he had lived by the faith that was in him, the faith of a man full grown.

--The N.C. Alumni Review