Robert Gordon University The two universities also compete annually in the Granite City Challenge which sees teams across a range of sports compete to be the best in the city. The Robert Gordon University has 2 partner schools in Switzerland: In 2010, RGU gained international attention for awarding an honorary degree to controversial American businessman Donald Trump, whose mother was from Scotland. This featured in the 2012 documentary film "You've Been Trumped" which documented the progress of the construction of Trump's golf course near Aberdeen from the point of view of local residents. In the film Dr David Kennedy, former Principal of the
Robert Winslow Gordon the Library of Congress in 1928. He was a pioneer in using mechanical means to document folk musicians, originally using Edison cylinder recordings. He is known among folk singers as the originator of the infamous Gordon "Inferno" Collection of American songs; he also collected an early version of Kumbaya. From 1943 to 1958, he was a Professor of English at George Washington University. He died March 26, 1961. Robert Winslow Gordon Robert Winslow Gordon (September 2, 1888 – March 26, 1961) was educated at Harvard. He joined the English faculty at the University of California at Berkeley in 1918. In