Doris G. Gordon Lecture Series

The Doris G. Gordon lecture series is named in honor of Doris Gilbert Gordon, a high school mathematics teacher and a friend of Denison.  Newark attorney L. James Gordon (’50) and his sister, Janet Gordon Forbes (’55), established the Doris G. Gordon fund in memory of their mother who had a great love of mathematics.  Doris Gordon was a long time resident of Granville and wife of Leland J. Gordon who was a Denison professor of economics.  Mrs. Gordon earned a B.A. in mathematics from Swarthmore College and an M.A. in mathematics from the University of Pennsylvania.  In addition to being a high school teacher in Pennsylvania and Ohio, she was an instructor in the V-12 Program at Denison in World War II and was later associated with Owens-Corning in a research capacity. Mrs. Gordon also provided her husband with mathematical and statistical data that he used in numerous textbooks.

Upcoming Lectures

Dr. Annalisa Crannell, Franklin and Marshall College

Dr. Michael Starbird, University of Texas at Austin

All Gordon Lectures

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March 27, 2008
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October 25, 2007
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April 3, 2007
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October 2, 2006
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October 13, 2005
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January 29, 2004
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February 24, 2003
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October 14, 2002