Clarence C. Goen was a church historian and professor emeritus of Christianity at Wesley Theological Seminary. Dr. Goen joined the Wesley faculty in 1960 and served there until he retired in 1989. He also had been an adjunct professor at Catholic, American and George Washington universities, and at the School of Theology at the Claremont Colleges in California. He was a specialist in 19th century American church history and had received the Frank and Elizabeth Brewer Prize of the American Society of Church History for his book, "Revivalism and Separatism in New England." Dr. Goen, who lived in Gaithersburg, was born in San Marcos, Tex. He graduated from the University of Texas and Hardin-Simmons University. From 1944 to 1947, he worked for Radio Corporation of America in Bloomington, Ind. He then served as a Baptist clergyman at churches in Austin, Rowena and Allen, Tex., and Ada, Okla., while attending Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, where he received a bachelor's degree in divinity and a doctorate in theology. He received a doctorate in church history at Yale University. He was a former president of the American Society of Church History and president and secretary of the American Baptist Historical Society.