Obituaries: John W. Bowen, S.S. (1924-2012)

In his role as alumni news editor for St. Mary's Seminary & University for more than twenty years, he spent countless hours going through them in search of announcements and articles regarding the alumni of St. Charles' College and St. Mary's. From 1982 to 2009, he served as priest-moderator to the board of the Mother Seton House on Paca Street, Inc., a group that restored and maintained the Sulpician-owned house where St. Elizabeth Ann Seton lived from 1808 to 1809; it is located on the grounds of the original campus of St. Mary's Seminary (est. 1791).