Bonnie Gordon

By CAROL A. CLARK
Los Alamos Daily Post
caclark@ladailypost.com

Longtime Los Alamos Daily Post Reporter Bonnie Gordon has retired. In 2012, she helped launch the Post and worked for the paper as a reporter and graphic artist from 2012 until retirement.

“I’m proud to have been part of the Post … I think it’s a wonderful publication and a great asset to the community,” she said.

Gordon recalled how some 12 years ago while riding down the hill I mentioned that I was going to start a newspaper.

“I’m in!” she said, and although working at UNM-Los Alamos at the time, Gordon volunteered evenings and weekends with several others to help prepare the site, which went live Feb. 7, 2012.

Gordon grew up in Boise, Idaho. She received a full scholarship to Reed College in Portland, Ore. and graduated with a BA in English Literature in 1977. She moved to Santa Barbara, Calif. to attend graduate school while working fulltime at the U.S. Post Office.

“I loved Santa Barbara and hated academia,” Gordon said. “Quitting grad school made life a lot easier and I went on to work at the Post Office for 13 years while serving as a union officer and shop steward the entire time.”

In 1984, Gordon moved to Austin, Texas to be with her future husband, David Sigeti. He was attending graduate school at UT Austin. She worked at a Post Office there, changing jobs to become what they call in Texas, a “lady mailman”.

In 1991, while pregnant with twins Alexandra and Jacob, Gordon moved to New Mexico with her husband when he took a job at Los Alamos National Laboratory.

After taking some time off to raise her children, Gordon took a job in 2000 as Community Editor at the Los Alamos Monitor. She stayed in that job for some five years before accepting the position of Public Affairs Representative at UNM-LA.

Being both a writer and graphic artist, when Gordon came to work at the Post she primarily covered arts and culture, wrote reviews, built ads and created special sections. She has been a big part of the Post for more than a decade and will be missed – the entire news team wishes her the very best in her retirement.

“It was a difficult decision to retire and I hope to occasionally submit articles to the Post, but I want to travel and also complete several projects at home that I’ve had on the back burner for a long time,” Gordon said.