Gordon B. Turner ’37 *50

Gordon B. Turner died May 13, 1996. He was 81. Born in NYC, he settled in Princeton in 1946 where he resumed his undergraduate studies after a 12-year hiatus spent in banking, brokerage, and the military. He was an infantry captain on active duty in the Pacific during WWII. A member of the Class of '37, he received his BA in 1948 and PhD in 1950 and taught in the history department until 1959, specializing in civilmilitary relations. He occupied the Ernest J. King Chair of Maritime History at the Naval War College from 195758, edited A History of Military Affairs Since the Eighteenth Century, and was coeditor and author of National Security in the Nuclear Age.

Gordon joined the American Council of Learned Societies in 1959, serving as executive associate and v.p. with primary responsibility for the council's international studies programs, until his retirement in 1981. He served on the board of trustees of the Center for Applied Linguistics and the board of directors of the Intl. Research and Exchanges Board, which he established. He also served on the Secretary of the Navy's Advisory Committee on Naval History and on the US Natl. Commission for UNESCO.

Surviving are his wife, Jean Stewart Turner, his daughters, Michael Ann Walstad '73 and Barbara Gazey Turner, his granddaughters, Kimberly Elin and Catherine Avery Walstad, and his sister, Barbara F. Turner.

The Class of 1937