Posted: May 3, 2009  :

(RRW) Athletics: Note On The News - Running Benefactor Al Gordon Dead At 107

From David Monti © 2009 Race Results Weekly, all rights reserved RaceResultsWeekly.com Al Gordon, and investment banker and exercise enthusiast who was the oldest living graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Business School, died last Friday at his home in Manhattan. He was 107 years-old. Gordon was best-known for his investment banking prowess at Kidder Peabody, but he was also a running enthusiast and a long-time financial supporter of the New York Road Runners. Gordon was a true fried to New York City running, and his life has been celebrated every year through an annual road race which bears his name. You can read a robust obituary at the website of the New York Times here: NYTimes.com. Subscribe to the Runner's Web Weekly Digest