Herman Gadon ’47

Herman Gadon ’47 died on August 8, 2009, in LaJolla, California. He joined the class from Worcester (Massachusetts) High School of Commerce, majored in economics and graduated summa cum laude. After service in the Navy in the South Pacific as a lieutenant, j.g., gunnery officer he earned a Ph.D. in industrial economics from MIT in 1953. He served as a professor of management at the University of New Hampshire from 1964 to 1980, at San Diego State from 1980 to 1984 and as a senior lecturer at the School of International Relations at the University of California, San Diego, from 1984 to 1991. He was a founder of the International Management Development Institute in Lausann, Switzerland, and helped found business schools in Calcutta, Tehran and Amsterdam. He is survived by his wife and three children.