Athletics Hall of Fame
Tagged with a newsboy nickname given in 1943, Doc graduated from Lake Geneva High School in 1947, having lettered three years in football and three years in basketball. After playing freshman basketball in Oberlin College during the 1947-48 season, Doc joined the Marine Corps and earned a berth on the Parris Island basketball tour team. Between 1950 and 1952 the team won consecutive All-Marine championships on both East and West Coasts, posting season records against collegiate and military teams of 55-6 and 41-8. Entering UW-Whitewater in 1954, Doc was chosen President of his sophomore class and won three letters in basketball, being honorably mentioned Little All-American his senior year. Upon graduation in 1957, Doc entered the insurance business and was elected President of the Whitewater Quarterback Club in 1958. In his role as a Northwestern Mutual Life agent, he was named as one of that company's three Young Men of Distinction in 1959. Gordon is a past-president of the Whitewater Jaycees and was presented the Distinguished Service Award by that organization in 1965. In 1967, he joined a professional management consulting firm and moved to Brookfield, Wisconsin, where he coached three years in the Elmbrook Little League Baseball and Bucketeer Basketball recreation programs. A member of the National Association of Enrolled Agents and the Society of Professional Business Consultants, Gordon is a partner and Vice-President of Gaarder Miller Milwaukee, Ltd. Gordon and his wife, Dorothy, have five children, Elizabeth, James, Heidi, Peter and John, and now reside near East Troy, Wisconsin.
