A recent review in the philadelphia enquirer says this exhibition has love, death, and psychodrama. It goes on to examine a wealthy irish noble man who is part kickens with a spritz of Yankee Doodle into there is no doubt that his story from his traumatic head wound, to the demise at the hand of his own tenants is a cracking good tale, but it is more than love, death, and psychodrama. We see the entanglements of the 18th century and the global interconnectedness of the American Revolution. We find a story at the age of revolutions and also a story of today. A story of who we are and how we got here, and what the past means to us as a people or as nations. But we also find a detective story. A decades long mystery that started with two regullatively obscure paintings that had 22 works of art. One of the greatest mysteries of the past year, and my job brings me many, many joys on a regular basis, but one of the greatest has been watching this exhibition evolve and witnessing matts excite
April 29, 2021 SHARE
William M. Boothby, professor emeritus of mathematics in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, died Sunday, Feb. 14, 2021, in Nashville, Tenn. He was 102.
Boothby was born in Detroit and earned his bachelor’s degree from the University of Michigan in 1940. His graduate studies in mathematics were interrupted by World War II. In 1942, he enlisted in the U.S. Army Air Forces, trained as a pilot and flew over 600 hours before being discharged in 1945. Boothby completed his PhD in mathematics at the University of Michigan in 1949.
William Boothby (right), with his wife, Ruth, in an undated photo. (Photo courtesy of the department)