Born: December 20, 1903 (Gilmore, OH)
Died: December 15, 1963 (Pittsburgh, PA)
Education:
- 1926 West Virginia Wesleyan College, A.B.
- 1929 Boston University, S.T.B.
- 1930 University of Pittsburgh, M.A.
- 1942 West Virginia Wesleyan College, Hon. DD
Occupation:
- Licensed to Preach 1924
- 1925-26 Conway/Glenfield
- 1926-27 In School
- 1926 Admitted on Trial Methodist Episcopal Pittsburgh Conference
- 1928 Full Member of Methodist Episcopal Pittsburgh Conference
- 1928 Ordained Deacon
- 1928 – Welch
- 1928-31 Pittsburgh: McCandless Avenue
- 1929 Ordained Elder
- 1931-35 Pittsburgh: Beechview
- 1935-40 Monessen: First
- 1940-56 New Kensington: First
- 1956-62 Superintendent: Blairsville District
- 1962 Member Methodist Western Pennsylvania Conference at Merger
- 1962-December 15, 1963 Executive Secretary: Conference Board of Missions/Church Extension
Where they lived: New Kensington, PA; Greensburg, PA
Years Served: 1949-1965
Committees:
- Alumni Relations 1954-1959
- Executive 1959-1960
- History, Archives and Fine Arts 1956-1959
- Instruction 1949-1952
- Policy and Planning 1955-1956; 1957-1959
- Religion 1955-1957
Notes:
- Alpha Gamma Phi (forerunner of Kappa Alpha Fraternity)
- Chrestomathaean Literary Society
- Cutshall Literary Society, Vice President 1926 (This organization was reorganized into an Honorary Fraternity for students with high academic achievement and Boetticher was the President during the second semester 1926-27.)
- Lyceum Course Manager 1925, 1926
- Men’s Glee Club, Treasurer 1925; President 1924; Vice President 1925-26
- Ministerial Association
- Murmurmontis Business Manager, 1925
- Pharos Reporter, 1924
- Student Council
- Wesleyan Players, Treasurer 1926
- Y.M.C.A.
Marble Altar in Meditation Chapel was established in his memory by his wife, Gazelle Rusk Boetticher, class of 1925
The Von Boetticher Crucifix in the Wesley Chapel Narthex has been passed down through the generations in his family. See the Blog Entry for details.
The steps to Wesley Chapel are engraved with a John Wesley quote in his memory as well. “Let us unite the two so long divided, knowledge and vital piety.”-Charles Wesley
Sources
- Catalog
- Murmurmontis
- Sundial: 1964-04, p. 33
- Journal of the Western Pennsylvania Conference, 1964, p.367-69
- Young, N.C. and Horner, N.K. (2017) Pastoral records of the Western Pennsylvania Conference of the United Methodist Church: 1784-2017, p. 70
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