Blaine Morton Gordon ’37

Blaine died Dec.1, 2001, at his home in Birmingham, Mich. He was 84. He came to Princeton at the age of sixteen from New Rochelle Senior High. At Princeton he majored in economics, won a School of Public Affairs scholarship for summer study in Germany in 1936, was elected to Phi Beta Kappa in his senior year, and graduated with high honors.

Upon graduation, he worked for David Lawrence at US News & World Report. In 1941, Blaine joined the Army and after OCS was assigned to first quartermaster, Army Supply School at Harvard where he graduated first in his class as lieutenant. He was assigned to Greenville, S.C. Air Base to do contract renegotiations.

He received his doctorate from Indiana U., and taught for a few years. In 1950 he joined the government on the tax advisory staff of the Secretary of the Treasury.

In 1952 he was hired by General Motors in Detroit, as a tax analyst and retired after 25 years. He was active in the Economics Club of Birmingham, served as president of Birmingham Senior Men's Club, and as a consultant to non profit groups.

Survivors include his wife of 57 years, Mary Catherine, son Byron, daughter Andrea Gorman, and two grandsons. The class extends its sympathy to the family of this gifted man.

Class of 1937