Gordon R. Harrison ’68

Gordon, our faithful class treasurer, died Nov. 4, 2012, of pan­creatic cancer. He was 66.

He prepared at College High School in Upper Montclair, N.J., where he was on the golf and bowling teams and served as class secretary. At Princeton, he majored in classics and ate at Campus, rooming his senior year with Jim Bedell in Lockhart. He lettered in golf — with a 5 handicap! He was in the Army Reserve after Princeton and took graduate courses in the University’s art and archaeology department.

From 1974 on he managed eating clubs, including Cloister, Quad, Terrace, and Campus. He was treasurer for the Princeton Prospect Foundation and just about every other organization he was part of. He was one of the founders of Fund for Reunion.

One of Gordon’s greatest loves was barbershop singing. He was a member of the Princeton and Manhattan chapters of the Barbershop Harmony Society and the Princeton Garden Statesmen. In 2005, he received Manhattan’s rarely given Barbershopper of the Year Award.

Gordon was generous, notwithstanding a sometimes-aloof veneer; he used personal funds to help the staff of his clubs as well as the clubs themselves. Our class, and Princeton, will miss this special man. To his sister, Patricia, the class extends its deepest sympathy.