Frank Harmon Gordon ’33

Frank Gordon, of Lake Sunapee, N.H., a village trustee, died Feb. 5, 2000, at Dartmouth-Hickock Medical Center in Lebanon, N.H. He was 88. Former Mayor Walter Handelman said of Frank, "In working for the betterment of Scarsdale, its government, its schools, or its people, there has not been anyone in the last 40 years that I have lived here, that can hold a candle to the skill, humanity, good fellowship, and intelligence that was brought to the community by Frank Gordon. I have missed him since he escaped to New Hampshire, and now I will not see him again, something that makes me very sad indeed."

Frank was chief trial lawyer in communist trials under Judge Medina in the early 1950s. He was a partner in the Manhattan firm of Rogers, Hoge and Hill. He was a member of the New York and New Hampshire bar assns.

Frank was a lt.-col. during WWII. Frank was an avid sailor and conservationist. He was past pres. of the Intl. Racing Assn. from 1963-73. Frank is survived by his wife of 58 years, Dorothy Birmingham Gordon, three daughters, Susan Venable, Nancy Todd, and Gail Baade, eight grandchildren, and a brother, Lincoln. The class extends its deepest sympathy to his family and many friends.

The Class of 1933