George Stanley Gordon
[2] George Gordon's mother was a housewife and his father a Merchant Marine who served in World War I for England.
Brooklyn Tech as it was called was also known as HS 430 in Queens, New York, and emphasized training in the technical trades.
[3] In 1944, Gordon enrolled and attended Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, where he majored in Psychology.
While at the school he played baseball and won two varsity letters which eventually led him to a try out for the Brooklyn Dodgers.
Gordon served in World War II, treating the wounded on hospital ships in the Pacific Theater.
[3] Gordon attended the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Finance where he graduated in 1949 with a Masters of Business Administration Degree.
[3] After his honorable discharge from the military in 1949, Gordon moved to Canada where he became Brand Manager for National Distellers.
He then accepted a position with Benton and Bowles Advertising Agency where he became Account Manager for his first multimillion-dollar budget for selling Procter & Gamble Products.
Gordon created the highly successful The Sunrise at Eastern Campaign and was in charge of a 92 million USD budget.
The Sunrise Campaign was highly popular and caused an increase in Eastern's market share and a doubling of yearly carrier's revenue's to 750 million USD.
However, Gordon and Shortt's most famous client was Dallas, Texas based Braniff Airways where he created the Flying Colors Campaign.
Calder, the creator of the Mobile and Stabile art forms, agreed to meet with Gordon who explained the project.
A contract was created where Calder would paint fifty gouaches for possible later use of the gouache designs on Braniff aircraft and create the design for a Braniff Douglas DC-8 jet liner, in a manner that would celebrate the airline's 25th year of service to the South American continent.
The aircraft was a Braniff Boeing 727-291 Trijet registered as N408BN, which was painted to celebrate the United States Bicentennial year of 1976.
A vibrant red white and blue design was created by Calder and applied to the aircraft titled Flying Colors of the United States.
[5] In the late 1970s, Gordon attempted to assemble a group of investors to buy the original Calder Douglas DC-8 and Boeing 727 flying artworks.
[4] In 1997, George Stanley Gordon became an adjunct professor of entrepreneurship at the University of Connecticut Stamford's Graduate School of Business.
