John Marshall Gorman ’30

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JACK DIED Apr. 17, 1991, in Millard Fillmore Hospital after a long illness. "John Marshall," as he was known among lawyers in his hometown of Buffalo, N.Y., moved smoothly through his school years from Nichols School to Princeton to Harvard Law, and became an attorney with a general practice like his father before him. A member of Dial Lodge, he roomed two years with Hank Pennypacker and years three and four with Hobie Brinsmade. Jack will be remembered as a conservationist; as an avid sportsman and outdoorsman with skills in figure skating, fishing, and sailing; and as a Commodore of the North Shore Yacht Club on Bertie Bay in Ontario. During the war he had an unusual assignment

as an airplane engine test operator in a Chevrolet plant. Jack and Mary Hollister were married from 1932 until Mary died in 1987. They had three daughters. Jack's second wife, Esther W. Winfield, survives, as do his daughters; Ruth G. Dorries, Marjory G. Stoller, and Sally G. Bums; and ten grandchildren. We extend to them our sincere sympathy in their loss.

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