Senior dead, two injured in Virginia auto collision

The vice president of Prospect Club was killed instantly and the president of the Wesley Foundation critically injured Friday morning when their car hurtled head-on into a truck one mile west of Clifton Forge, Va. also injured was the third passenger in the car, a freshman who runs three southern N.J. churches.

Josh Lee Robinson, 21, of Toledo, Ohio, was dead beside Route 60 when police and an ambulance arrived. His head and chest were crushed and his left leg broken.

His watch had stopped at 8:33.

John Suydam Kuhlthau '58, 20, of Milltown, N.J., and Cloister Inn, is in satisfactory condition today in the C&O Railroad hospital in Clifton Forge. He succeeded Robinson last year as president of the Wesley Foundation, Methodist student group here.

With his condition at first listed as critical, he had remained semi-concious until Sunday after suffering a concussion, hospital officials reported.

Virgil Miller Newton III '60, 18, of Tampa, Fla., is in good condition in the C&O hospital. He suffered a laceration of the left cheek and bruises of the face. A lay-preacher in the methodist church, he has been handling the Emlystown circuit of three churches near Trenton and performed his first service of matrimony Jan. 26.

All pre-theological students, they were returning from a ministers conference at Asbury College, Wilmore, Ky. They had left Princeton Jan. 28 and were driving in a 1954 Ford sedan owned by Newton.