University of Massachusetts Amherst - Index Yearbook (Amherst, MA)

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1Q12 iriDEX Clarence Everett Gordon 8 ROFESSOR CLARENCE EVERETT GORDON, to whom the class of 1912 dedicates this volume of the Index, entered the Massachusetts Agricultural College in the fall of 1897, graduating with the class of 1 90 1 . Following his graduation he served as instructor at Cushing Academy, remaining there three years. Dur- ing this time he did advanced work along his chosen lines at the summer sessions of Clark University. In 1904, he left the Academy, and entered upon graduate work in Columbia University, where he was successively student, instructor in the summer school, and Fellow in Geology and Zoology, taking the Degree of Master of Science from that University in 1905. In 1906, he was called to his Alma Mala, to the position of Assistant Professor of Zoology and Geology, which position he held until his recent promotion. As a student in College, Professor Gordon was active in all matters pertaining to college life. In his Junior year he served on his class INDEX board. In his Senior year he was editor-in-chief of the Aggie Life, the college paper of that day, president of the College Senate, secretary of the Fraternity Conference, president of the old Reading Room Association, and an officer in the cadet batallion. Many of the alumni, students in the early naughties, hold him in grateful remembrance as a private tutor in mathe- matics. For a time, while still a student, he served as an instructor in the old Mt. Pleasant school. In this record as made by him, in the place as occupied by him in the college life of a decade ago, in the ability and initiative which he displayed in the support of col- lege organizations, and in the capacity for hard, persistent and thorough work, shown by him as executive officer of so many student projects, the undergraduate of ten years ago, the Abe Gordon of college days, gave promise of that life of service so well fulfilled by the Professor Gordon of to-day. As his place in the student body of that 10

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1912 inbEx earlier period was won by work, by performance in the deed, rather than in the promise, so to-day Professor Gordon is respected by the students with whom he comes in con- tact, and by his co-woricers on the faculty of M. A. C, for his deeds, his accomplish- ments, his unceasing labors in behalf of the students, of the College, and of his own department. Last spring the Trustees recognized Professor Gordon ' s services to the College, by placing him at the head of the newly created department of Zoology and Geology, with the rank of Associate Professor. In the new entomological building he now has, for the first time, room and equipment adequate to the importance of his work. In entering upon this new position, with its added responsibilities and increased opportu- nities, he has in marked degree the good will of students, of teachers, of alumni, of everyone connected with Old Mass ' chusetts. SIDNEY B. HASKELL. II