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151 Millennium - A Marquis Who’s Who Magazine B efore retiring as the prominent executive he is known as today, Lloyd Robert Garrison took on two professions simultaneously. The first one was in polymer research and development, where he spent 12 years in a research laboratory. His boss, John Roker, inspired him to be very rigorous, but intuitive. Mr. Garrison was also involved with organometallic electric-chemical LLOYD ROBERT GARRISON TECHNICAL MANAGER (RETIRED) Brenntag Specialties, Inc. Upland, CA ENERGY, ENGINEERING AND MANUFACTURING properties of magnetic phenomena. Mr. Garrison also worked for Bell & Howell, where he gave lectures on special magnetic phenomena for ultra thin magnetic films. Once he retired, he pursued his second love of the social sciences in political economics. At this time, he is a lecturer at California State University, Fullerton. Mr. Garrison received a BA in 1975 and an MA in 1977, both in political science from California State University, Los Angeles. He went on to complete postgraduate work at the Claremont Graduate University from 1977 to 1979. In the course of pursuing his undergraduate degree, Mr. Garrison was inspired by a professor at Wayne State University in Detroit. She was an employee of the state department and had a phenomenal influence on Mr. Garrison in changing his thinking towards political and social phenomena. Over the years, Mr. Garrison was a technical manager for Brenntag Specialties, Inc., Pacific Division in 2010 and for their Western Division from 2002 to 2008. From 1993 to 2001, he served as an international business manager for Hampshire Chemical Corp. in Massachusetts. Mr. Garrison was also a senior sales engineer for W.R. Grace & Co. and Ferro Corp. in the 1980s and a laboratory technician at Bell & Howell, Wyandotte Chemical Corp. and Spencer Kellogg between 1963 and 1974. Mr. Garrison is a member of the Society of Plastics Engineers, Applied Pulp Paper Institute and the Los Angeles Society for World Affairs. Additionally, he has sat on the board of directors for the San Bernardino Symphony Orchestra since 2010. His advice to fellow industry professionals is to be multidisciplinary in both the humanities and sciences. He also advises to be flexible, and when working as a team, to include people from other disciplines in order to have different perspectives.