Charles J. Browning Sr.; Sociologist

Charles J. Browning Sr., 75, Whittier College faculty member for more than 30 years and former chairman of the sociology department. He also chaired the sociology department at Pasadena College, where he taught before going to Whittier in 1958. Born in Evansville, Ind., he earned a bachelor’s degree from Bethany Nazarene College in Oklahoma and master’s and doctoral degrees from USC. He was a specialist in criminology and juvenile delinquency, and worked a number of summers at Los Angeles County probation camps and briefly at the New Mexico State School for Boys. On Thursday in Pomona, of complications from a stroke.