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Museum of Russian Icons announces death of founder Gordon B. Lankton Gordon left an indelible mark on the town of Clinton, turning old, otherwise abandoned buildings on Union Street into Nypro Inc. and the Museum of Russian Icons, both globally recognized organizations. CLINTON, MASS .- The Board of Trustees of the Museum of Russian Icons announced the death of founder Gordon B. Lankton. After opening a branch of his plastics manufacturing company in Moscow in 1992, he came to appreciate Russian culture, particularly the icon, the emblematic sacred art form stemming from the Byzantine traditi...

The Board of Trustees of the Museum of Russian Icons has announced the death of founder Gordon B. Lankton. After opening a branch of his plastics manufacturing company in Moscow in 1992, he came to appreciate Russian culture, particularly the icon, the emblematic sacred art form stemming from the Byzantine traditions of the Russian Orthodox Christian faith. Gordon founded the Museum of Russian Icons in 2006. From his early days as a Boy Scout collecting pennies, Gordon was a studious and passionate collector. Whether it was icons, African sculpture, World War I and II posters, or die-cast mod...

2021 Rising Stars: Andrew Wooley President, Houston Plastic Products Corp. Andrew Wooley got his feet wet helping his father, Randy, a salesman and general manager for ACM in the 1980s and 1990s, at trade shows and attending business trips. "My father is the reason I am in plastics," he said about his mentor. "I was lucky to be educated and trained by the best in the business, my father. I was able to learn much from his co-workers and his friends in the business." Wooley graduated from Texas Christian University with a bachelor's degree in economics. He was in the financial services industry...

2021 Rising Stars: Colleen Lavelle Technical Service and Development Engineer, M. Holland Co. Colleen Lavelle graduated from Lafayette College in Pennsylvania with a Bachelor of Science in chemical engineering and a Bachelor of Arts in mathematics. Her first job in the plastics industry was a lab engineer internship at T&T Marketing, a distributor of polymer resins and compounds to the wire and cable market, where she worked on a product development project. "I was initially drawn to the internship because of the hands-on research and development work I'd get to partake in. I enjoyed working ...

Kevin Herrington, 32 Research Scientist, Braskem With the COVID-19 pandemic, Kevin Herrington said most of his team has been working from home since March. The challenge has been in finding new ways to work and communicate with one another, but it has also created more time to examine and…