C. Keating Bowie ’36

Keats died of cancer June 30, 2005. He was 92.

A graduate of the Gilman School, at Princeton he majored in economics, was a varsity wrestler for three years, and was a member of Tower Club. Early in our freshman year our class Cane Spree team lost to the Class of 1935 team. Only Keats won his match for our team and thus was the first in our class to wear the class numerals.

Keats graduated from Harvard Law School in 1939. He practiced corporate law until retiring in 1986. In the 1940s he served as an assistant Baltimore City Solicitor and was on the boards of the Legal Aid Society and the Peale Museum. During the 1960s he served as an adviser on housing matters to Baltimore mayors and was appointed by the Maryland governor to lead a 10-member commission on the revision of the corporate laws of the state. He also served 31 years in leadership positions at Baltimore's Enoch Pratt Library, ending as chairman.

For many years, Keats was a dedicated collector of Maryland maps.

He is survived by his wife of 51 years, the former Alice Forbes; sons Keating III and Walter W.W.; daughters Elizabeth Fesperman and Helen B. Campbell; a brother, Robert R. '31; and five grandchildren.

The Class of 1936