Ruth Coralhouse

General

• died 9 May, in her Ascendancy Point flat, at the age of 108
• husband is renowned reality researcher Horatio Flynn
• former Academy Senior Fellow of the Social Sciences department
• pioneered early work on Earth anthropology based on some of the earliest comprehensive Earth communications
• retired from that position in 250
• with husand, developed the first compelling model of convergent development, now widely called CF Theory
• the pair were jointly awarded the Ikonnikov Prize for their work in 234 and again in 239
• student Margaret Wildwood is now the current Senior Fellow of the Academy's Social Sciences Department
• heiress to a considerable fortune left to her by her father, Antony Coralhouse
• other family: son, October Flynn, and his three children, Julius, Camilla, and Marcus
• left a clause in her will for a PCL45 million bequest jointly to the Academy and the Centre for Reality Research
• the will specified that the money must be used to develop a method for transporting physical matter between Perplex City and Earth, with the aim that her ashes be transported to Greece and scattered over the Mediterranean Ocean on Earth
• her will also specified that her ashes should be kept in a replica Grecian urn in a Greek-style temple on the Great Lawn

References

• Perplex City Sentinel
  • article, 10 May, "Coralhouse Dies at 108" (link)
  • article, 17 May "Coralhouse Bequest Shocks Academy" (link)
• Quirky Acuity, Violet Kiteway's Blog
  • 12 May entry