David Howard Gordon ’61

David died in his sleep July 15, 2022, in Westchester County, N.Y.
Born in Brooklyn, he came to us from Jamaica High School. At Princeton, he majored in chemistry, ate at
Court Club, was a member of the University Band, and played tennis and squash. He roomed with Marty
Fechner in his senior year.
David earned a medical degree at SUNY Downstate Medical Center and, after serving in the U.S. Public
Health Service during the Vietnam War, embarked on a career in radiology at Downstate Medical Center
in Brooklyn, where he worked for almost 30 years, retiring as a full professor in interventional radiology
and CT and acting chairman. He was proud of having helped to create several new fields of medicine in
CAT scanning, endourology, and interventional radiology.
David continued working for the next 14 years as a professor of radiology at the Jacobi Medical Center in
the Bronx. His lifelong commitment to squash and tennis having been complicated by orthopedic
challenges, he was active in table tennis in his later years at the national level.
A New York resident for most of his life, he and his wife retired to Lake Worth, Fla., in 2016. He is
survived by Rosalind, his wife of almost 61 years; daughter Padma; sons Eric and Jeffrey; and three
grandchildren.