David M. Gordon--Dave--our classmate and friend at Oxford (class of June 1955), Garfield Junior High (1958), and Berkeley High (1961), died of heart failure on 16 March 1996 at the age of fifty-one.  A leader from his earliest Oxford days, he is remembered for his intellectual gifts, for his commitment to leftist politics, and for his humanity and citizenship.  At the time of his death he was Professor of Economics at the New School for Social Research and director of the Center for Economic Policy Analysis in New York City.  His colleagues and friends will remember his reshaping the economic thinking of the democratic left during the Washington retreat from the welfare state.  His best-known book was Beyond the Wasteland: A Democratic Alternative to Economic Decline.  His last book was Fat and Mean, a play on the phrase "Lean and Mean," about the inefficiency of the modern American corporate culture.  At Oxford Dave was a Top Sergeant (highest grade); and at Berkeley High he was a cheerleader, supporting his classmates and teams.  Dave is survived by his widow, Diane R. Gordon, and his brother, Robert J. Gordon, a leading mainstream economist.David M. Gordon, 1943-1996. Oxford Elementary class of 1955.  Berkeley High School class of 1961.  David was a member of a prominent family of economists.  His father, the late Robert Aaron Gordon, was chairman of the Economics department of UC Berkeley; his mother, the late Margaret S. Gordon, was also an Economics professor at Berkeley; his brother Robert Gordon, is a well-known economist at Northwestern University.  David earned his Ph.D. in 1971 from Harvard and joined the faculty of the New School for Social Research in New York City in 1973.  (From the Berkeley Alumni Association Quarterly Journal, Spring 1996)