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John Slaughter
Wiley Peebles, Russell Allred, and John Slaughter all perished in the same car accident. The accident occurred just below Mount Bonnell, in Austin, during their Freshman year at UT. That would make it about 1980-1981. Mark Paulson sadly remembers "...the destroyed car was stored at a gas station right across the street from my dorm. A truly sobering sight and a painful, daily reminder of the loss."
I did not meet John until Freshman Orientation (UT), so I did not know him very well. However, I vividly recall seeing my first topless sunbather at Barton Springs with John. I think we gave ourselves away as clueless freshman trying to be cool, but we were getting out and enjoying Austin, just the same.
-- Mark Paulson
I didn't know John in high school, just basically knew who he was. However, the first semester of my freshman year at UT, John and I each had a MWF morning class in the same building which let out at the same time. Although we didn't really know each other, we did recognize the other's familiar face in the scary new big world of UT Austin. We quickly got into the habit of walking and talking together after that class. I very much enjoyed my morning walks with John and even after he died in that horrible accident I constantly found myself waiting for him after that class. It was a sad reminder every MWF morning for the rest of that semester that we all lost a really nice guy. I still think of John even though it's been almost twenty years since his death, some people are just hard to forget.
-- Lisa Taylor
John Slaughter
Wiley Peebles, Russell Allred, and John Slaughter all perished in the same car accident. The accident occurred just below Mount Bonnell, in Austin, during their Freshman year at UT. That would make it about 1980-1981. Mark Paulson sadly remembers "...the destroyed car was stored at a gas station right across the street from my dorm. A truly sobering sight and a painful, daily reminder of the loss."
I did not meet John until Freshman Orientation (UT), so I did not know him very well. However, I vividly recall seeing my first topless sunbather at Barton Springs with John. I think we gave ourselves away as clueless freshman trying to be cool, but we were getting out and enjoying Austin, just the same.
-- Mark Paulson
I didn't know John in high school, just basically knew who he was. However, the first semester of my freshman year at UT, John and I each had a MWF morning class in the same building which let out at the same time. Although we didn't really know each other, we did recognize the other's familiar face in the scary new big world of UT Austin. We quickly got into the habit of walking and talking together after that class. I very much enjoyed my morning walks with John and even after he died in that horrible accident I constantly found myself waiting for him after that class. It was a sad reminder every MWF morning for the rest of that semester that we all lost a really nice guy. I still think of John even though it's been almost twenty years since his death, some people are just hard to forget.
-- Lisa Taylor