Gordon L. Marshall ’53

Gordon died Sept. 8, 2024, in New London, N.H.

He was born in Yonkers, N.Y., and came to Princeton after graduating from Horace Mann School. Gordon joined Cottage Club, majored in sociology, and wrote his thesis on “An Analysis of Executive Development and Training.” After graduation, he spent two years as a lieutenant in an artillery unit of the Army. He went on to obtain an MBA and DBA from Harvard Business School, serving in the admissions office and then as a faculty member for several years.

He was dean of the faculty at IMEDE in Lausanne, Switzerland, from 1971 to 1973, where he developed an MBA program with a multinational faculty, expanding a business management program originally developed for Nestle executives. From 1973 to 1983, Gordon served as president of Wheelock College in Boston. He was proud of helping reinvigorate an institution that had been struggling. Later, he worked with an entrepreneurial startup company, Enerchip, for two years; became director of a small federal grant for the N.H. Association of School Principals for two years; and joined the faculty of Colby-Sawyer College, where he was chair of the department of business administration and taught undergraduates. 

Gordon was predeceased by his first wife, Carolyn. He is survived by his second wife, Betty Herrick; his four children; nine grandchildren; and two great-grandsons.