John Booty, former dean of the School of Theology and professor emeritus at the University of the South in Sewanee, Tenn., died April 17, 2013. He was 87.

Booty received a bachelor’s degree from Wayne State University in 1952 and a bachelor’s degree in divinity from Virginia Theological Seminary in 1953. He was then ordained in the Episcopal Church.

In 1957 he received a master’s degree in religion from Princeton, and in 1958 began teaching at the Virginia Theological Seminary. He completed his Princeton Ph.D. in 1960 and was promoted to associate professor in 1964.

From 1967 to 1982, he was a professor of church history at the Episcopal Theological School in Cambridge, Mass. From 1982 to 1985, he was dean of the School of Theology at the University of the South, and from 1984 to 1990 he was professor of Anglican studies, becoming emeritus in 1990.

He was a Fulbright scholar and fellow of the Folger Shakespeare Library and the NEH. Booty contributed to the Graduate School’s Annual Giving campaign for 52 years.

He is survived by Catherine Louise, his wife of 62 years; three children; nine grandchildren; and four great-grandchildren. A son died in 2010.

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Graduate Class of 1960