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Ernest Gordon (31 May 1916 – 16 January 2002) was the former Presbyterian dean of the chapel at Princeton University. A native of Greenock, Scotland, and the son of James Gordon and Sarah R MacMillan, as an officer in the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, Gordon spent three years in a Japanese prisoner of war (POW) camp during the Second ...
Jan 21, 2002 · Ernest Gordon, longtime dean of the chapel, dies. A memorial service for Ernest Gordon, dean of the chapel at Princeton from 1955 to 1981, is scheduled for 2 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 16, in the University Chapel. Gordon died Jan. 16 at age 85.
When Ernest Gordon lay ill in a prison camp in Thailand, his fellow patients in the camp’s hospital — the Death House, they called it, since it “had long since given up any pretense of being a place to shelter the sick” — called the priest who gave last rites “the Angel of Death.”
Feb 11, 2002 · A memorial service for Ernest Gordon, dean of the chapel at Princeton from 1955 to 1981, is scheduled for 2 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 16, in the University Chapel. Gordon died Jan. 16 at age 85.
Ernest Gordon, longtime dean of the chapel, dies. Princeton NJ -- A memorial service for Ernest Gordon, dean of the chapel at Princeton from 1955 to 1981, is scheduled for 2 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 16, in the University Chapel. Gordon died Jan. 16 at age 85.
Oct 27, 2017 · In the summer of 1939, Ernest Gordon, a young Scotsman, knew that war was imminent. He had been a Royal Air Force pilot injured in an aircraft accident, had studied philosophy and law at the University of St. Andrews, and had been recently enjoying the life of an avid sailor.
Jun 6, 2022 · Remembering Dean Gordon. Elyse Graham ’07’s Princeton Portrait of Dean Ernest Gordon illuminates a dark part of the life of this remarkable man. I had the honor of meeting him for the first time when I was recovering from illness in the Princeton Infirmary in 1978.
