Charles H. Ware ’49

Charles Ware, who bravely stepped in to serve as our class secretary after the death of Sam Englehart, died Feb. 20, 2012.

Charlie was born in the Bronx July 8, 1927, and graduated from Tenafly (N.J.) High School. At Princeton he majored in chemical engineering, played intramural sports, and worked in the dining halls. After graduation he served in the Counter Intelligence Corps in Japan and earned a Ph.D. in chemical engineering from the University of Pennsylvania.

Charlie taught, lectured, and invented. He was awarded nine patents for improvements in the petroleum industry.

Charlie said that his principal interests were spirituality and metaphysics, including self-healing. The result was Charlie’s Law: “Everything turns out right when you let it.” His book, Murphy’s Law Repealed!, was published in 2004.

Charlie was divorced from his first wife, the late Elizabeth B. Ware. In 1985 he married Sharon Mayes, who survives him and who served as our class secretary for a time after Charlie’s passing. To Sharon and his children, Ellen E. Ware and Laura W. Pennington, and grandchildren Allen C. and Anna E. Pennington, the class extends its condolences on their loss of this most interesting man.