BOWMAN, PROFESSOR CHARLES KALT - Professor Charles Kalt (Chad) Bowman, Department of Sociology (retired), died peacefully at home after two months of battle with cancer on December 7th, 2003. He was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, August 15, 1943, the only child of noted author and professor H.A. Bowman and social activist Edna (Kalt) Bowman. After graduation from Stephen F. Austin High School, Austin, Texas, Chad attended Oberlin College of Ohio for a year. He left his studies there to take the opportunity of traveling the world with his parents as they helped a variety of universities set up sociology programs in Australia, New Zealand, and Europe. He then attended the University of Texas at Austin graduating Phi Beta Kappa, Magna Cum Laude, the top undergraduate U of T student of 1966. He went directly into an interdisciplinary Socio-Linguistics Ph.D. program under the sponsorship of the prestigious Graham Fellowship. He married Mickie (Courson) Bowman in Austin in 1969. One part of the world Chad had never visited was New Brunswick. After seeing UNB's beautiful campus and meeting the Department of Sociology's fine staff, he joined the Department in 1971. Chad treasured his 29 years at UNB, his students, his colleagues, his friendships, his opportunity to write and research. His all-consuming activity was teaching and monitoring his students, but he found time to write reviews of scholarly works, monographs, and journal articles, and present invited papers. In 1993, he was one of the recipients of the Canadian Society For the Study of Higher Education's National "Sheffield Award" which recognizes the work of authors judged to be most excellent in the Canadian Journal of Higher Education. He retired from UNB in 2000. As well as travel, Chad loved poetry and music. He was an early member of the Gilbert and Sullivan Society of Fredericton, and, in the 80's and 90's, produced some of the Society's most successful cabarets and main shows. He also supported, with enthusiasm, the New Brunswick High School Drama Festival and the Oromocto High School Drama and Music programs. Chad was predeceased by his grandparents, Reverend Charles and Ana (Knuckle) Kalt and Harold and Elizabeth (Hilton) Bowman, his parents, his uncle, Dr. Robert and aunt Gladys (Ewalt) Bowman, his uncle, Dr. Charles Kalt, Jr., and sister-in-law, Betty (Courson) Cambron. He is survived by his wife, Mickie, sister-in-law Norma (Randall) Allmon of Phoenix, Arizona, brother-in-law W. Thomas (Marilyn) Courson of Columbus, Ohio, brother-in-law M. Lee Courson (Carbondale, Illinois), seven nieces and nephews-in-law, and goddaughter D'Arcy Walsh (Ottawa, Ontario). In accordance with Chad's wishes, no funeral service nor visitation will be held . There will be a memorial service to be announced at a later date. Information can be found on the McAdam's Funeral Home website: www.mcadamsfh.com. Donations in Chad's memory to the UNB general scholarship fund or a charity or cause of the donor's choice are most welcome.