Gerald Huntington Dorman

Gerry Dorman was born on April 18th, 1931 and died on March 3, 2023.

He was the son of Dr. Gerald Dale Dorman and Georgia Atwood White. A younger sister, Dale Dorman Shaw, died in 2014. Born in New York City, Gerry graduated from Trinity School, Harvard College with a major in mathematics, and Harvard Business School. His college education was supported by the U.S. Navy and he served on active duty through the end of the Korean War aboard the heavy cruiser USS Toledo in both gunnery and engineering.

Gerry received his MBA in 1957 and worked in management and industrial engineering for the Procter & Gamble Manufacturing Company in Quincy, MA. In 1960 Gerry began working for Rath & Strong, Management Consultants, in productivity and quality control, mostly for manufacturing clients. He also served in management within the firm, retiring in 1992.

Gerry has been active in the Episcopal Church, as acolyte, choir member, lay Eucharistic minister, junior and senior warden, numerous committees and commissions, as well as in the Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts on the Standing Committee and the Commission on Ministry. He was first Senior Warden and a founding member of the Anglican Church of the Resurrection on Cape Cod.

In Orleans Gerry has served as chairman of the Shellfish and Waterways Committee and on the board of the Orleans Pond Coalition, as well as being active with water sampling, herring counting and the development of an upweller. He served for several years as the town of Orleans representative to the County Coastal Resources Committee. Of himself he wrote of his retirement: "am free to use my gifts at other things: the calling to evangelize by deed and word, the continued nurturing of family and the practice of exercising body, mind and spirit for the satisfaction it brings… Prayer and Bible study, duplicate bridge, sailing...catching up on reading."

In 1953 Gerry married Althea Train Thomsen. They raised 6 children and now have 15 grandchildren and 13 great-grandchildren. Here again are his words: "I am convinced that God is my creator, that he, in the person of Jesus Christ, redeemed me, and that he, in the person of the Holy Spirit, is with me always and sustains me. Obviously a Christian Trinitarian creed, but more than that, the center of my being. I am a theist as opposed to a deist, i.e., I believe that God is personal and immanent as well as transcendent, that he is active in the world all the time. Why he allows Satan the slack he does is probably for the same reason that he allows me the slack he does. He gives free will to Satan and to me, the only difference being that I desire (will) to do what God would have me do."

There will be a service on Saturday, June 17th at 10 a.m. at the Cape Cod Bible Alliance Church; 3600 Main Street, Brewster. No flowers please. Gifts in Gerry's memory may be made to Anglican Church of the Resurrection; P.O. Box 1704; Brewster, MA 02631.