In Memorium
Mary Theodosia Bowie: 1913–2007
Theodosia Bowie, wife of the first director of the Center for International Affairs, Robert R. Bowie, died in her sleep at the age of 94 at the Blakehurst retirement community. Theodosia Chapman was born and raised in Chestertown and earned her bachelor’s degree in English from Washington College in 1933.
In the late 1930s, she became librarian of the patients’ library and director of visiting clergy services at Johns Hopkins Hospital until she moved with her husband to Massachusetts in 1944. Mrs. Bowie, who lived in Cambridge until 1980, was a member of the Mothers’ Thursday Club, which researched and wrote articles on historical and personal topics. She was also member of the board of visitors and governors at Washington College from 1984 to 1987. In 2002, she and her husband endowed the Theodosia Chapman Bowie Scholarship Fund at the college.
Mrs. Bowie accompanied Robert R. Bowie throughout his career in the U.S. State Department, at Harvard, and at the Central Intelligence Agency.
Mary Theodosia Bowie is survived by her husband, by two sons, Robert R. Bowie, Jr., and William Chapman Bowie, as well a grandaughter, Alice Bowie, and two grandsons, Robert Bowie, III, and Peter Bowie. The Weatherhead Center mourns the loss of an essential founding participant in our insitution.