The University of Louisville Alumni Magazine: for alumni, faculty, staff, students and anyone that is a UofL Cardinal fan.
Issue link: https://louisville.epubxp.com/i/643329
7 0 | L O U I S V I L L E . E D U In Memoriam Stanley Jay Gordon, Jr., 75S, 76GS passed away Sept. 12 while performing in the Wings over Big South Fork Air Show in Oneida, Tennessee. Gordon graduated from the UofL Speed School with his bachelor's and master's degrees in civil engineering. He served on the UofL Industrial Board of Advisors and received the Alumni Fellows Award in 2006. He had his Professional Engineer Certif cation and was a member of Chi Epsilon National Honor Society of Civil Engineers. An accomplished aerobatics pilot, Gordon performed in Thunder Over Louisville for the past 15 years and in various national airshows over the past 20 years. He was a member of the Aircraft Owners, Pilots Association (AOPA), the Commemorative Air Force, the Quiet Birdmen, and was a Board Director of EA A Warbirds of America. Gordon was president and founder of Gordon- Darby, Inc., and also started the Gordon Foundation in 1995. Nancy Major Hearne Jones passed away peacefully Oct. 7. A native to Ashland, Kentucky, Jones moved to Louisville after graduating from Transylvania University in Lexington, where she met the love of her life, Harry Jones, 92AD. Harry Jones is a member of the Board of Overseers and previous member of the Board of Trustees. She was a co-founder of Jones Plastic and Engineering, a homemaker, member of Hurstbourne Country Club and the Churchill Downs Turf Club. She was recently named a "Louisville Legend" by the Louisville Sports Commission, and served for many years both as a co- chair of the Foster Brooks Pro-Celebrity Golf Tournament and as a member the Board of Directors for the ABA basketball team. A champion equestrian show rider, Jones was a lifelong horseracing enthusiast as well as an avid fan of the University of Louisville. Joan Leslie Caldwell, 85AD an actress during Hollywood's golden age, passed away in Los Angeles on Oct. 16 at the age of 90. After marrying physician William Caldwell, 43MD, she put her movie career on hold to raise her twin daughters, Patrice and Ellen, and work for charity. An avid supporter of UofL, Caldwell established the Caldwell Chair in Gynecologic Oncology to expand UofL School of Medicine's research. Her husband created the School of Medicine's George P. Caldwell Scholarship Fund in honor of his father. After signing with Warner Bros. at the age of 15, Caldwell's f rst major role was in "High Sierra" as the disabled Velma opposite Humphrey Bogart and Ida Lupino. In her 20-year career, the Detroit native performed in over 30 f lms. She romanced Gary Cooper in "Sergeant York," danced with Fred Astaire in "The Sky's the Limit," and sang with James Cagney in "Yankee Doodle Dandy." Joel Elkes, MD, a pioneer in modern psychiatry and former UofL professor, died Oct. 30, 2015, at the age of 101. Elkes transformed the f eld of modern psychiatry in 1950 when he used a double- blind placebo research model to study the effects of chlorpromazine on patients with schizophrenia. The double-blind method is now the industry standard in drug trials. "He was really a Renaissance man to the whole f eld," said Alan Tasman, MD, UofL professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences, who worked with him when Elkes was a professor at the school from 1981 to his retirement in 1994. Tasman remembers Elkes not only as a leader of groundbreaking psychiatric research, but also as a role model and "incredible mentor," and as a strong proponent for incorporating holistic, alternative behavioral approaches into psychiatric care. Elkes authored more than 40 papers, and won multiple awards in his f eld. He donated his personal papers to UofL's Kornhauser Health Sciences Library upon his retirement in 1994. V.V. Cooke Jr., passed away July 8. He was the president of the V.V. Cooke Foundation, which includes the V.V. Cooke Chair of Medicine at UofL, supporting teaching, research and service in internal medicine. He was the son of V.V. Cooke, Sr., who was instrumental in founding the Kentucky Southern College, now UofL's Shelby Campus. Cooke Jr. was also the president of V.V. Cooke Chevrolet Co. He attended Baylor University, served in the U.S. Air Force and was a member of Christ Church United Methodist. Gordon Jones Caldwell Elkes Cooke