Gordon Mack

   Gordon Mack, 81, a resident of Princeton since 1965, died Monday at the University Medical Center at Princeton of prostate cancer.
   A native of Evanston, Ill., he earned a bachelor’s degree and second lieutenant’s commission at Southern University, where he entered the Army ROTC, played football, joined Kappa Alpha Psi and served as president of the student YMCA, the beginning of a life-long connection.
   Following two years’ service in the Army and graduate school at New York University, he was hired as an assistant boy’s work secretary at the Hyde Park YMCA in Chicago. Almost 40 years later, including 10 years as a division chair at Bank Street College of Education, he retired from the YMCA of the USA, where his most recent responsibilities had included national personnel services and the implementation of the Y’s mandate for cultural diversity. Within weeks of retirement, he agreed to an appointment at the University of Northern Iowa to head the American Humanics Program, a launch pad for students entering the not-for-profit sector.
   He was the first chairman of Princeton’s Commission on Civil Rights and had served on the vestry of Trinity Church and board of Trinity Counseling Service. He was also a member of the Princeton Old Guard.
   He is survived by his wife, Kay; daughters Melissa Mack of Elizabeth and Margot Mack of New York City; sons Michael of Richmond, Va., and Matthew of Kappa Kauai, Hawaii; and a sister, Marjorie Mack of Brooklyn, N.Y.
   A memorial service will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday at Trinity Church, 33 Mercer St., Princeton.
   Memorial contributions in Mr. Mack’s memory may be made to a charity of the donor’s choice.