Michael S. Gordon

Happy Birthday Dad. We love you. We miss you so much.

I too was enriched by knowing you and working with you during my Pension Rights Center days. You were a true advocate and we will all miss you.

Michael,
Thank you for your teaching,
For wise counsel and guidance,
For listening and taking the time to argue
once we thought we had something to say,
For collaborating often,
For pointing out blind alleys,
For steady hope, hard work, and realism,
For good humor and comradeship,
For passion and compassion,
For protecting the least of us,
For trying to improve what you started.
Without you here
We...

Mike was a strong believer, and that extended to his work in employee benefits. I had the pleasure to serve on various groups with Mike over the years, as well as to have many one-on-one discussions. He believed firmly in what was right and wrong, what one could and should do, and he was one to share those thoughts with you. His counsel and advice was always worthy, and always made something better. Either you needed to agree, or you needed to think through as clearly as Mike did why you did...

I was priviledged to work very closely with Mike during the early 70's when we were colleagues on the Senate Labor Committee staff. He was a very thoughtful and committed person. His legacy is the protection that so many workers received to make sure their pensions were secure
I feel honored to have known him. My condolences to the Gordon family.

I was never able to meet Mike Gordon, but know of him through his friends, colleaguges, and numerous admirers (e.g., Steve Sacher; Howard Shaprio) who speak fondly of him and of his reputation and work in enacting ERISA legislation. All who work in this area paid homage to and mourned his passage at our annual ABA EBC meeting

Although we were at one time contemporaries on the Hill and I knew him by reputation, I actually met him only three or four years ago. We fast became friends, so much so I felt as if I had known him all my life, that's how comfortable we felt with each other. I am certain that feeling about Mike is held and treasured by every single person who he favored with his grace, his humor, the force of his intellect, and his knowing all that territory between the realities of life as it is and, with...

Mike was a man of great insight, wisdom, and kindness. He was a tremendous friend and was unfailingly helpful to all of us at BNA. I doubt that his tenure of almost 30 years as chairman of our Pension & Benefits Reporter advisory board could ever be matched; I know his contributions could not be. The writers and editors here are left speechless by his passing. The loss of his knowledge, humor, and great heart will be felt by so very many people.

Mike Gordon was a "Force" in the development of national pension policy.
While passionate about the protection of employee pensions, he maintained a wonderful sense of humor. I feel fortunate to have worked with him over the years, and will miss him greatly.