克利福德·巴克曼，《今日波士顿》，为乔恩·威斯特林写悼词
但是今天 published 讣告 remembering Professor Jon Westling, who died last week. The piece contains interviews with some of Professor Westling’s colleagues, both faculty and staff, and including Professor Clifford Backman and Professor James McCann.
巴克曼教授还分享了一些纪念威斯特林的话：
在官方层面上，乔恩在我们部门有一段漫长而复杂的历史； 就个人而言，我将怀念与他一起讨论的时光，从英国普通法到鲜为人知的加拿大诗人，从美国西北部的美，到波士顿的餐馆，再到各种摩托车的优缺点。 作为一名中世纪学者，我能够以一种在我们系成员中独一无二的方式与乔恩建立联系。 我发现他是一个很好的同事，也很健谈。 我们一起学习的许多学生都对我说，他的广博知识令人印象深刻，而且几乎能应付任何提问。 I shall miss his deep laugh, his lively opinions about everything — even the ones I disagreed with– and our medieval-nerdy emails written in Latin. His story is surely an unusual one, with a BA from Reed College, advanced study as a Rhodes Scholar at St. John’s College (Oxford), then rising through the administrative ranks at BU until finally reaching the presidency (1996-2002). 他的职业生涯饱受争议。 我认识的那个人也因此变得更有趣了。