Gordon M.G. Strauss ’69

Gordon M.G. Strauss ’69, of Goshin, Ohio; Feb. 2, due to acute myeloid leukemia. After Brown, he served in the U.S. Marine Corps for three years, including a year in Vietnam, for which he received a Meritorious Bronze Star. Following his military service, he earned a law degree from the University of Cincinnati and practiced law for the next 40 years. In the beginning of his career he worked for the General Counsel to the Republican National Committee. He then worked both in Washington, D.C., and Cincinnati representing candidates and political organizations. He was general counsel to the Ohio Republican Party that included Newt Gingrich as a client. He later worked in South Africa (a month before Nelson Mandela was elected) teaching political parties about the country’s new constitution and how to teach their members to vote. During this time, he was named parliamentarian for the committee on rules and order of business and served in four Republican national conventions. Afterwards, he worked with Hamilton County (Ohio) as an assistant prosecuting attorney and retired as a magistrate in probate court. In retirement he enjoyed farm life and handyman work. He would be involved in the Episcopal church wherever he was living at the time. He cofounded the Juvenile Detention Center ministry at Indian Hill Church (Cincinnati). During the last two years, while battling his disease, he trained to become a volunteer chaplain at Christ Hospital. He was a member of the Cammarian Club and Delta Upsilon. He is survived by his wife, Julie Burdick; a son; four grandchildren; a sister; brothers Victor ’70 and Geoffrey ’71; and niece Anne Alice Chagnot ’07.