Gordon Stick

Gordon Malvern Fair Stick (17 July 1903 – October 1986) was a corporate executive and community leader in Baltimore, Maryland.

Gordon Stick was born in Nagoya, Japan to Estes Pearl Fair and Jacob Monroe Stick, a Lutheran minister and missionary. The family moved from Japan to Baltimore in 1913 .

After graduating from the Johns Hopkins University (where he was a classmate of Alger Hiss) he began his career as an investment banker and retired as Vice President of Sales for FX Hooper Company, Inc. in Baltimore .

Gordon Stick held leadership roles in numerous community and historical projects in Baltimore, including serving as chairman of the restoration committee for the USS Constellation, curator of the Lacrosse Museum at Johns Hopkins University, president of the American College of Heraldry and Arms, and organizer of an historical naval reenactment of the War of 1812's battle at Fort McHenry.

He served from 1972 to 1976 as American Grand Prior IV of the Sovereign Military Order of the Temple of Jerusalem .

He died in October 1986 in Baltimore, aged 83.

References

  1. ^ Correspondence with T. H. F. Stick
  2. ^ Ancestry.com
  3. ^ Correspondence with T. H. F. Stick
  4. ^ Grand Priors on the US Sovereign Military Order of the Temple of Jerusalem website
  5. ^ Coat of arms grant documents, Lyndon Baines Johnson Presidential Library and Museum
  6. ^ Correspondence with T. H. F. Stick


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