Analogic Corp. founder Bernard Gordon donated $40 million to Tufts University’s engineering school, his latest and largest donation to the school since he first went there 65 years ago.
Gordon, who’s also a co-founder and chairman of NeuroLogica Corp., has given $150 million to the school, which he attended for short time as an Navy officer-in-training in 1944 studying engineering and psychology along with naval navigation and strategy. After serving in World War II, Gordon attended the Mass. Institute of Technology but never forgot the warm reception he received in Somerville from then-Tufts president Leonard Carmichael.
{IMAGELEFT:http://www.massdevice.com/sites/default/wp-content/uploads/headshots/Gordon_Bernard_100x100.jpg}In July, the 81-year-old stepped down from the board at Analogic, which he founded in 1964 and shepherded as chairman and CEO until his 2003 retirement.
That’s also when he signed over all of his Analogic shares to the Bernard M. Gordon Charitable Remainder UniTrust, which has since donated more than $120 million to non-profit concerns across the Commonwealth.
