Gordon M. Loos ’50

Gordon died Feb. 3, 2006, in Haverford, Pa., of complications from liver disease.

Gordon was born in Nanjing, China, but grew up in Princeton. He served a year in the Navy before joining our class. He sang in the choir for four years, belonged to Prospect Club, and graduated with highest honors in biology. He went on to Harvard for a master's in biology and did research for two summers in Woods Hole, Mass.

He worked for the Educational Testing Service in Princeton for two years before joining the staff of the American Board of Surgeons in Philadelphia in 1956. There he served as director of arrangements, which included certification examinations in general surgery. He retired from the board in 1991.

Gordon was a prodigious letter writer, liked writing poetry, and delighted in inventing words and making puns. His interests also extended to painting, classical music, and lending his baritone voice to several singing groups. He and his wife, Marilyn, whom he met through classmate Bob Stevens and married in the University Chapel in 1959, lived in Radnor, Pa., until 1999, when they moved to a senior community.

We extend our sympathy to Marilyn; his son, Jonathan; daughter Elizabeth; and brother Donald.

The Class of 1950