Robert Gordon University events. The mace is a modern design in silver and black, designed and crafted in 1993 by Gordon Burnett (a member of staff at the university's Gray's School of Art), and paid for by the City of Aberdeen as a gift to the new university. It was presented to the university at a ceremony on 26 June that year during which the first chancellor of the university, Bob Reid, was installed. The mace is primarily jet-black, with wavy fins edged in silver that run vertically down the full length of the mace's head (reflecting the wavy black band in the
Robert M. Gordon Robert M. Gordon Robert M. "Bob" Gordon (born July 3, 1950) is an American Democratic Party politician who served in the New Jersey Senate since January 8, 2008, where he represented the 38th Legislative District until he resigned on April 4, 2018, to accept a cabinet position under Governor Phil Murphy. Gordon served in the General Assembly from 2004 to 2008, and was the 2007 Democratic nominee to succeed outgoing Senator Joseph Coniglio. Gordon graduated with a B.A. from Williams College in Political Economy, awarded an M.P.P. from the University of California, Berkeley in Public Policy, and received an MBA