[Congressional Record Volume 162, Number 28 (Tuesday, February 23, 2016)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E185]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                      RECOGNIZING DR. SUSAN GORDON

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                           HON. NITA M. LOWEY

                              of new york

                    in the house of representatives

                       Tuesday, February 23, 2016

  Mrs. LOWEY. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to recognize Dr. Susan Gordon, 
a nationally recognized pediatrician, teacher, and equal rights 
advocate from Pomona, New York, who passed away January 25.
  Dr. Gordon opened her pediatric office in Haverstraw, New York after 
graduating from Howard University College of Medicine in Washington, 
D.C. In 1958 she started a 25-year career as an associate professor of 
pediatrics, first at New York Medical College and then at Columbia 
University's College of Physicians and Surgeons. Dr. Gordon served as a 
member of the National Panel on the Measurement of the Program Effects 
of Head Start and a member of the Board of Trustees of Nyack Hospital. 
Dr. Gordon was also a member and past president of the board at the 
Lexington School for the Deaf, and the School's Health Center was named 
in her honor.
  Dr. Gordon and her husband, Dr. Edmund W. Gordon, were champions for 
equal educational opportunity, working with a small group of concerned 
citizens in the late 50's and 60's to integrate the schools in the East 
Ramapo Central School District. Dr. Gordon was very active in the PTA 
and later was elected a member of the East Ramapo Central School 
District Board of Education, where she was elected and served as 
President for three years. The Drs. Gordon combined their medical and 
educational knowledge and talents to found the Harriet Tubman Child 
Health and Guidance Clinic in Harlem in the 1950's, and helped 
establish the Psycho-Educational Diagnostic Clinic for children at 
Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center (referred to as the Ambulatory 
Pediatrics Division).
  In addition to her work in medicine and education, Dr. Gordon devoted 
her time and talents to serving the Rockland County community, and her 
accomplishments brought her well-deserved recognition. Dr. Gordon was a 
long-standing board member and served as President of the Martin Luther 
King Multi-Purpose Center Board of Trustees, and on January 22, 2000, 
the classrooms and computer center at the Martin Luther King Multi-
Purpose Center were dedicated as the Susan G. Gordon, M.D. Education 
Corridor. She was also one of three women recognized at the African 
American Chamber of Commerce of Westchester & Rockland Counties, Inc.'s 
2000 Women's History Month luncheon. Dr. Gordon was the recipient of 
the 1999 ``Children's Champion Award,'' given by the Early Child 
Consortium of Rockland County, and in 2006 was inducted, along with her 
husband, into the Rockland County Civil Rights Hall of Fame.
  Most recently, the Drs. Gordon founded Gordon and Gordon Associates 
in Human Development, and their children established the CEJJES 
Institute and Library in Pomona to continue their parents' life work in 
the promotion of social justice, particularly as it pertains to health, 
education, and the environmental and material well being of 
marginalized communities.
  Mr. Speaker, I am proud to recognize the many outstanding 
accomplishments of my constituent, Dr. Susan Gordon. I urge my 
colleagues to join me in honoring her exceptional life.

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