Background
Bowden, Gordon Townley was born on May 15, 1915 in Huron, South Dakota, United States. Son of Aberdeen Orlando and Katharine Kennan (Marsh) Bowden.
telecommunications industry executive
Bowden, Gordon Townley was born on May 15, 1915 in Huron, South Dakota, United States. Son of Aberdeen Orlando and Katharine Kennan (Marsh) Bowden.
AB magna cum laude, Harvard College, 1937. Doctor of Philosophy, Harvard University, 1943.
Tutor sociology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1939-1940;
instructor business administration, Harvard Business School, Boston, 1940-1944;
personnel counselor, Western Electric Company, Kearny, New Jersey, 1944-1946;
research staff in personnel and labor relations, Pacific Telephone Сompany, Los Angeles, 1946-1948;
traffic manager, Pacific Telephone Сompany, Los Angeles, 1948-1952;
from staf assistant personnel to director urban affairs and educational relations, American Telephone & Telegraph Company, 1952-1971;
director educational relations, American Telephone & Telegraph Company, 1972-1980;
retired, American Telephone & Telegraph Company, 1980. Consultant Foundation Industrie-Universite, Brussels, 1980-1985. Member Council on Graduate School Arts and Science, Harvard University, 1980-1985, member visiting committee for Sch.Edn., Harvard Board Overseers, 1962-1968.
Advisory county on university seminars program Columbia University, since 1983, chairman, since 1985. Member of advisory board on continuing education in business Committee for Economics Development, 1964-1967. Member county on development education and management training National Industrial Conference Board, 1957-1968, chairman, 1964-1967.
Mem.staff education task force Council of Chief State School Officers, 1975-1977.
Member National Committee on Youth, 1976-1982. Member Harvard Club (New York ).
Married Mary Ellen Burkholder, September, 1941 (divorced 1961). Children: Gordon Burkholder, Katharine Marsh. Married Mary Virginia Brown, September 17, 1961.