Charles Abraham Owen Jr. ’35 *36

Charles Abraham Owen Jr. died July 24, 1998. He was 84. He was born June 5, 1914, in Johnstown, Pa. Charles prepared at Rumsey Hall and Lawrenceville. He received degrees from Princeton and New College, Oxford, and began teaching at the U. of Buffalo in 1938.

During WWII, he served as a captain in the Army. In 1946 he married Mabel DeGeer Welles, sister of Edward '28 and Sam '35. He taught in the English department of the U. of Connecticut from 1946 until his retirement in 1981. In 1982 he taught at Trinity College, Dublin. He continued to take part in Chaucer scholarship and recently returned from the New Chaucer Society's conference in Paris. His published books are Discussions of the Canterbury Tales (1961), Pilgrimage and Storytelling in the Canterbury Tales (1977), and The Manuscripts of the Canterbury Tales (1991). Owen was a member of the Modern Language Assn., the New England Medieval Conference, the Medieval Academy of America, and the New Chaucer Society, and was a cofounder of the medieval studies program at UConn. He is survived by his wife, Mabel; his children, Lucy, Sarah Tabor, Jennifer '74, and Charles '77; and his grandchildren, Philip Tabor and Jennifer Tabor.

The Class of 1935