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“Someone might be frustrated that they’re late, but it’s with the best of intentions,” Freed said. “It’s not a reckless act. It’s just that he was about to do something else that was good.”
Gordy searched dumpsters looking for cans. As an environmental activist, he didn’t look for cans to make money, but to make sure they were recycled. Gordy was also a keen cyclist and rode all over the place, and once he was digging for cans in a trash can when someone stole his bike.
He left his bike vulnerable because he only saw the good in people and couldn’t understand that someone would take something that didn’t belong to them.
Many of Gordy’s friends speak of him in this way, a deeply kind man, if sometimes absent-minded, unable to see the bad in people.
“My father always saw the best in the worst of people,” says his daughter Young, laughing lovingly. “He saw everyone as good. It wasn’t bad. “
Throughout his teaching career, Gordy advocated public education and the political candidates who supported it in Tucson, the State Capitol, and Washington, DC
He made hundreds of signs for political candidates, often at less cost than the candidates themselves could get.
Gordy was President of the Tucson Education Association from 1999 to 2001. He was also a member of the National Education Association, the Pima County Education Caucus, and most recently the Arizona Education Association-Retired for Retired Educators.
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