Lynn and Bette Gordon Scholarship

Lynn Gordon grew up on the Gordondale Dairy Farm in Nelsonville, WI. He attended the Jerome Nelson Stare Graded School and graduated from Amherst High School in 1951 where he participated in various activities and team sports. He attended the University of Wisconsin-Madison and graduated with a BS in Chemical Engineering.

Lynn was a “critical skill specialist” at the Army Chemical Center in Edgewood, Maryland, in 1956 and 1957. In 1957, he returned to work at the Mosinee Paper Mill in various jobs for 34 years with the last 14 years before retirement as Vice President of Manufacturing-Engineering-Maintenance. He is a 50+ year member of TAPPI and PIMA (professional organizations dedicated to the pulp and paper industries), the American Chemical Society, and the Mosinee Lions Club.

On June 10, 1965, Lynn married Bette Orella in Green Bay, where she was a registered x-ray technologist at Bellin Hospital and taught x-ray classes at the hospital. Their son Gary (Deena) has an MS in Industrial Management from UW-Stout and is a father to a Gordon grandson. Lynn and Bette’s daughter Gina (Fred) Pamenko has a BS in Industrial Engineering from UW-Madison and is a mother to three Gordon grandchildren.

Lynn hopes these scholarships will give some scholars a start in the chemical and biological engineering fields at UW-Madison.