Gordon M. Shimer ’37

"TOUGH MINDED, HARD DRIVING" Gordon Shinier died May 12, 1992. Although he had been in poor health for the last two years, his death from a heart attack was unexpected. His first wife, Anne, whom he married in 1941, died in 1959. Gordon is survived by his widow, Rosemary, whom he married in 1965; a son Stanley, daughters Barbara Quinn and Meg McKnight; and five grandchildren. His father, Stanley, was Class of 1910.

Gordon pursued Glee Club, basketball, and track at Andover, and later at Princeton, where he majored in economics and was a member of Key and Seal. He completed his education with undergraduate and graduate degrees from N.Y.U. in business administration.

Initially a buyer in the export department of Tide Water Associated Oil, he moved on to U.S. Rubber and Hoover Curtice & Ruby, prior to becoming purchaser of packaging machinery for E.R. Squibb & Sons (now Bristol Meyers Squibb), in 1947. He rose to he director of package development and industrial engineering. The description of Gordon quoted above is from a profile of him in the Feb. 1964 issue Of MODERN PACKAGING, which emphasized his merger of package engineering and industrial engineering. Gordon was active in the Boy Scouts and the Red Cross, when not fishing or weekend farming. He retired from industry in 1966 to enter the academic community. Following completion of the course work for a Ph.D. in economics at West Virginia Univ., he assumed the chairmanship of the Division of Business Administration and Management at Southwest State Univ. in Minnesota. His last academic appointment was at James Madison Univ. in Harrisonburg, Va.

The Class of 1937