Gordon College

255 Grapevine Rd, Wenham, MA 01984 -  View Map

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• Gordon College was founded in 1889 as a missionary training institute. Originally located in Boston, the school is named for its founder, the Rev. Dr. A.J. Gordon, a prominent Boston clergyman of the late 1800s. Within 30 years Gordon had grown well beyond the facilities of the church in which it was founded. It had also outgrown facilities it used at the Newton Theological Institution so the school moved to the Fenway portion of Boston, into a facility that was financed through a very generous gift given by Martha Frost.
• Gordon College provides a well-rounded education in an environment where both mind and spirit can soar. Almost all Christian colleges put strong emphasis on behavioral expectations, chapel attendance, prayer before classes, etc. Gordon goes beyond this. Every professor integrates Christian thought and assumptions into classroom study.
• Gordon strives to provide students with the best in academics, campus life activities, dynamic athletic teams and unique mission opportunities-not only in the New England community, but across the country and globally. Gordon has received recognition in U.S. News & World Report as "one of the best national liberal arts colleges" and is one of only seven members of the Council of Christian Colleges (CCCU) to earn that distinction.
• At a private, residential, small Christian liberal-arts college like Gordon, a student's experience outside the classroom is further developed by strong participation and unique leadership opportunities as only one of the nation's top Christian colleges can provide-ministry, service-learning, student-employment, student government and leadership roles in residence life, activities, recreation programs and more.
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• Free performance of Haydn masterwork tomorrow (The Salem News)
  posted on July 11, 2011 at 09:15:11 am
  WENHAM — Franz Joseph Haydn's choral masterwork "Paukenmesse — Missa in Tempore Belli" (Mass in Time of War) will be performed tomorrow night at Gordon College. The 8 p.m. concert, part of the American Choral Directors Association Conference at the college, is free and open to the public.
• Gordon College awards 356 bachelor's degrees, 34 master's (The Salem News)
  posted on May 23, 2011 at 09:07:18 am
  WENHAM — Gordon College held its 119th graduation exercises Saturday morning on its Grapevine Road campus. It was the last for President R. Judson Carlberg, who is retiring this summer. Carlberg has worked at the Christian college for 35 years, 19 as president.
• Longtime friends seek to unite students (Boston Globe)
  posted on May 22, 2011 at 04:55:54 pm
  WENHAM — While attending fifth grade in Lake Geneva, Wis., Jesse Adams and Arthur Emma were called to the principal’s office for selling fireworks in the school cafeteria. Years later when they left home to attend college in the Boston area, Adams at Gordon College and Emma at Boston University, the two decided to invest in something with a bigger ...
• Area college commencements (Boston Globe)
  posted on May 22, 2011 at 09:56:13 am
  Gordon College Campus quad, Wenham.
• Bonded by friendship, pair seek to build student ties (Boston Globe)
  posted on May 22, 2011 at 09:55:26 am
  WENHAM — While attending fifth grade in Lake Geneva, Wis., Jesse Adams and Arthur Emma were called to the principal’s office for selling fireworks in the school cafeteria. Years later when they left home to attend college in the Boston area, Adams at Gordon College and Emma at Boston University, the two decided to invest in something with a bigger ...

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