Background
Bowen, Donald Eyre was born on September 22, 1912 in Newton, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Robert Sidney and Gertrude Margaret (Gammons) Bowen.
Bowen, Donald Eyre was born on September 22, 1912 in Newton, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Robert Sidney and Gertrude Margaret (Gammons) Bowen.
Bachelor of Science, Tufts College, Medford, Massachusetts, 1935. Doctor of Medicine, Tufts Medical School, Boston, 1939.
Intern, Hahnemann Hospital, Wochester, Massachusetts, 1939-1940;
resident in psychiatry, Boston University, 1951-1953;
resident in psychiatry, Metropolitan Eastern State Hospital, 1950-1951;
resident in psychiatry, Boston University, Massachusetts Memorial Hospital, 1951-1953;
with industrial medicine department, Brown County Woods Department Medicine and Surgery, Megaloway Plantation, Maine., 1940-1942;
private practice, Newton-Wellesley Hospital, Newton Lower Falls, Massachusetts, 1946-1989;
retired, Newton-Wellesley Hospital, Newton Lower Falls, Massachusetts, 1989. Chief psychiatry Newton-Wellesley Hospital, 1968-1973. Consultant in psychiatry, since 1973, chief psychiatry Waltham (Massachusetts) Hospital, 1954-1964, senior medical staff, 1964-1989.
Assistant clinical professor Tufts U. Medical School, Boston, since 1973. Consultant, founder Interfaith Counseling Svc., West Newton, Massachusetts, since 1958.
Consultant in psychiatry Commonwealth of Massachusetts Department of Welfare, Boston, 1956, United Church of Christ Board of World Ministries, New York City, since 1965. School physician City of Newton, 1947-1950. Lecturer Andover-Newton Theological School, Newton Centre, Massachusetts, 1956-1958.
Major United States Army Air Force, 1942-1946. Fellow American Psychiatric Association (life). Member American Medical Association., New England Society of Clinical Hypnosis (past president), Masons.
Married Margaret Elizabeth Schrader, June 14, 1941. Children: William Eyre, Lawrence Philip, Nancy Elizabeth.