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THE CUBA FAMILY ARCHIVES FOR SOUTHERN JEWISH

HISTORY AT THE BREMAN MUSEUM

Mss 387, Gordon Family Papers

Box 5, File 8

Gordon, Samuel – Correspondence, 1945-1946

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CUBA FAMILY ARCHIVES IS STRICLY PROHIBITED

CHESS ABERNATHY, JR., '34 Executive Secretary

PUBLISHERS OF THE EMORY ALUMNUS ROBERT F. WHITAKER, '26-'27L. Alumni Director

(ON LEAVE-SERVING

IN THE ARMY)

.August 2, 1945

Lt. Samuel L. Gordon, MC, USNR, '38-' 41.M u.s. Naval Air Base, Navy #957, c/o FPO San Francisco, Calif.

Dear Sam:

ELIZABETH CHAPPELL DUNCAN Acting Secretary

Although I have written your mother expressing our sympathy over the loss of Jack, since you are away I did want you to lmow that all of us at Emory feel keenly your loss - and ours. 1e have lost so many of our younger alumni - all exceptional

boys - but to us the death of Jack is the saddest of all. I think that you aid your mother knO\'i how rmich those of us who knew him personally an:i worked with him loved him. I always refer most a:f'fectionately to the students who worked in the alwnni office as "one of my NY.A boys" and Jack was indeed one of my favari tes.

~e plan to carry a tribute to Jack in the September issue of the Alumnus. I wrote your mother this, a.Ill she called me this morning. She seemed quite brave, as only one of her fortitude can be. She said she had just returned from the mountains and ould probably go back in a few days if the hot weather we are ncm having continued.

7e used to bear from you indirectly when you and arren Duffee were together. e have Warren's new address but have no idea where he is. \ e know of many Dnory men in the Marianas, Volcanos, ani Philippines. If you would like a list of any of the groups let us know.

Let us hear from you whenever you feel like writing.

Sincerely,

(Mrs. J .R.) Cuba Family Archives

DESTROYER SQUADRON FIFTY ONE

Cuba Family Archives

N.Y., Nov. 24th./4o.

~1y Dea. r Sami v el ; -

ie had all look forward with so muoh antioipation to your return from your long absemce, that I can readily reali~e how much it meant to you to be coming home again and with what eagerness you approached home. I~ must therefore have been an even greater blow if possible, to find that the Lord had taken your good mother just as you were expecting soon to see her again. This loss, for almost all men, is the most bitter bereavement that they have to suffer. I can express to you, from my own experience, my deepest heartfelt sympathy and oondolenoe. Most of us have to go through tnia heart-breaking experience, when our mothers are taken from us and something is taken out of our lives that never can be recovered. It ia ~pecially hard when the loss is so sudden and without warning. You have Nance and Samby for comforting and consolation and these will help you, I know, at this hard time.

Nance has of course told you how well and how and how actively your mother was enjoying her visit to the city so racen~ly and what delight she took in her grandson. She aopeared to be in good spirits and though still suffering from the loss of her son. your mother oourageously carried this heavy ourden of sorrow. She got a good deal of fun out of her experience in being obliged to take a room at a 42nd.street hotel wnere she shrewdly oomprebended the type of oiti~ens that were narbored there. -_i'hile quite respectable, it was clP,e.r t nat it was hardly first rate. but with her southern a~ciability. she oompletely wan over the manager (and I think also the owner) of the hotel. He put all the faoilties of the hotel entirely at her servioe and it amused your mother greatly that the manager reoognized that she was not in her proper element there and so wished to make it up to her in every way. Her accounts of hotel life on the shady ~ i de of 42nd. street were moat amusing and were told with much amusement to her:3elf as well aa for us.

You will feel partly consoled, I hope, that your good mother was able bravely to make her own life bearable and to take enjoyment in the normal oourse of her daily living and experience. Her sudden end, without suffering was perhaps one of God's mercies that we do not always understand and is so hard to accept with resignacion. 3o ping you are well and :: i th love from us all, to you and to Nancy, 'J?r

Affectionately,~~


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November 14,1945

Lieutena~t Co ~antler Saouel L.Gordon 1028 St.Charles Avenue,~.E. Atlanta , Georgia.

Dear Com.mander Gordon,

Your de r ~other was one of ~y Gray Ladies who worked at Fort lcPherson. We are very grieved to hear of her n ssing - she was an i~spiration to us all. There was nothing that was too much wor'c or oo much trouble for her to do for the ~en at this hospital.

She was al1ays so sweet and kind. We shall miss her but e shall never for~et her.

No natter how much she suffered over the loss of her son, .. tacl.::,she was always cheerful and smiling when she arrive t the hospital, lthou~n those o us who knew better realized th'lt her heart was bre' king.

You have every reason to be roud of your mother. i h deeuest sympathy o you,I am

Sinc~rely yours,

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Dear Sir or Madam,

As I have sent you a few weeks ago a " Jahrzeit Tablet" and I have no.t heard yet anything from you, I assume that this matter has slipped your attention. May I therefore appeal to you a second time. If you are not able to send me the full amount I asked you, please forward me as m uciil as you are able, but give this matter your attention as soon as possible. May ~lmighty God bless you and grant you long life .

Yours truly,

SOLIU BRANDMANN 222, Empire C., North End Road,

Wembley Park, Middlesex. . £iv•u~W>

Will you please furnish me with the acfdresses of the other

ch ildren of the deceased . - Thank you .


IN REPLY REFER TO NO.

U. S. NAVAL AIR STATION LAKEHURST, N . J .


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THO M AS M . HEARN, M. D. 10067 RIVERSIDE DRIVE

TOLUCA LAKE

NO R T H HO L LYWOOD, CALI F OR N IA

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March 31, 1946

Lt. Comdr. S. L. Go-rdon. (Ii.C) USNR Naval Air Station Lakehurst, New Jerde~r

DE;ar Sam:

I'-n reall: ashamed of myself for not unswering your letter of last December and thanking you fc1 the d~apsh0t Perha~~ you are now out of the Service but tt ... is wil"' _r,:0bably r~ac·, :; thr u ·: tr.e usual for vardinti chanr_-ls .

After leaving you in San Franc.; sco, J ·e"".1. +; to the rav·l -0;E-ation C ,~ er and found Jane 1aiting for me therP. It was for •nate for ~€ t~at I ~1·~ · 60 t.p to , .... :::I.'.:.:--~- :iopkj.ns \11th Jou. Ehe had recei'I. d misinforma ti r regarding thE lanc.ing "'f th ship and f :_ t -:. · .. at this would be the logica 1 place to meet me. We h~d a great reunion and enjoy(· a racation, even spencing several weeks at the cabin in the mountains.

I'm now in active practice an .:i things are going along fine -- in fact, business is too good to really enjoy a le~ of the things that we had hopea to do when we were oversea'"' and talking about our fut · -- 0 s.

Best reO'~ Jc- to you and your Y'ife and '1.ope tha t Te will be seeing you some day in Cc if~rr~3 .

Mo~ ~ incerely,

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