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Below is a list of our viewable newsletters and bulletins beginning with October 2016 to present.  You can sign up for future mailings below:

 

 

Hugh Lenox Karraker Obituary, AUGUST 2022

Hugh Lenox Karraker

1948 – 2022, Hugh Karraker, filmmaker, environmental activist, and great grandson of “the Father of Plastic”, opened new horizons of knowledge

Redding, CT… Hugh Karraker died on Wednesday, August 17, 2022, at Regional Hospice in Danbury, Connecticut. He was 74 years old. 


View JUNE 2022 Newsletter

Professor Prashant K. Jain presented with Leo H. Baekeland Award
 
  • Professor Prashant K. Jain Receives Baekeland Award
  • John Maher Presents Film at Society of Plastics Engineers Conference
  • Bakelite Quiz – Last Call for Entries

 

View APRIL 2022 Newsletter

Leo H. Baekeland in Florida, March 1922
 
  • April 22nd is Earth Day
  • Baekeland Award Symposium & 2021 Award
  • CSPAN 2 Airs Program on Bakelite
  • ATB Launches on Amazon
  • The Story of Bakelite Audio Version on YouTube
  • Ratings Game
  • Bakelite Quiz #4
  • Correspondence and New Friends
  • On Our Radar

View DECEMBER 2021 Newsletter

Bakelite Christmas Ornament
 
  • Seasons Greetings!
  • Holiday Special!  Reduced price on DVD sales.
  • ATB Top Ten List of 2021

View NOVEMBER 2021 Newsletter

 
  • Happy Birthday, Leo H. Baekeland!
  • Leo Baekeland at the Mark Twain House and Museum
  • The Bakelite Quiz
  • Günter Lattermann’s Newsletter
  • Rosanna Falabella’s Phenolic Beads

View SEPTEMBER 2021 Newsletter

 
  • The Global Release of our Film
  • Promotional Campaign
  • The Bakelite Quiz
  • Welcome New Team Member
  • In Development
  • The Story of Bakelite
  • Reflections

View JANUARY 2021 Newsletter

 
  • ATB streaming worldwide
  • Marketing/PR position available
  • Engaging our audiences
  • The L.H. Baekeland Project YouTube Channel
  • ATB at the MAK Museum in Vienna
  • Introducing our revised trailer
  • A word from Hugh

View SEPTEMBER 2020 Newsletter

ATB footage used in STEM television broadcast in Thailand
 
  • Pandemic suspends public screenings, opening up new possibilities
  • Thailand television uses ATB footage
  • Podcast at the Goethe Institute – Bakelite and other inventions
  • DVDs selling at Bakelite exhibition in Vienna, Austria
  • Videos added to website and YouTube channel
  • Nancy Byck Welch Collection update
  • William Bregar, writer for Plastics News passes away

View SPRING 2020 Newsletter (Revised Quarantine Edition)

• Earth Day was inspiring
• Hexion Inc. puts ATB on website
• Pandemic shuts down screenings
• National Public Television airdates continue
  (see NYC Flyer)
• Reindert Groot’s Bakelite Review feature
  (revised)
• Additional content in the works


View END OF 2019 Newsletter

7th  Biennial Baekeland Symposium in Tarragona, Spain

• 7th Biennial Baekeland Symposium in Spain
• Bedford Playhouse screening
• Nancy Byck Welch jewelry project update
• Public television airings updates
• Upcoming screenings at Yonkers Historical
  Society and American Chemical Society’s • National Meeting and Expo 
• New videos and interviews


View FALL 2019 Newsletter

Hugh and John presented the film at the Indian Lake Theater in Indian Lake, NY in the heart of the Adirondacks

• Public television airings
• ATB at Indian Lake Theater in Upstate NY
• Upcoming screenings
• Medallion update
• PlastiVan® program update
• New videos & radio interviews on
  ATB website
• German Museum Bakelite exhibit 9/2019
• ATB trailer clips used in Brazilian tv program


View SUMMER 2019 Newsletter

Hugh and Edward Werner Cook, Heritage Day – Science History Institute

• Hugh visits Science History Institute for
   Heritage Day 
• ATB at Plastics Heritage Congress
   in Portugal
• National public television update
• NYU Tandon exhibit comes to a close
• New Castle, Bedford and Mt. Kisco
   Historical Societies of NY plan screening
• Talks resume with SPE’s PlastiVan program
• Keb’ Mo’ and Taj Mahal mention
   Leo Baekeland in new music video
   about plastic


View SPRING 2019 Newsletter

• ATB Airing on Connecticut & NY Public TV
• Screening & exhibit at NYU, Tandon
   School of Engineering
• Baekeland Commemorative Medallion
   Manufacture Underway
• Hugh Presents ATB Film during Plastics
   Heritage Congress 5/30/19
• DVD Sales Update


View FALL 2018 Newsletter

Happy Birthday Leo

• Happy Birthday, Leo
• Lecture for the Royal Academy of
   Sciences and Arts – Brussels

• Screening at the European Phenolic
   Resins Association

• The National Educational
   Telecommunications Association
   (NETA) to distribute ATB

• Bakelite medallion being created
• Film submission to Sundance Film Festival
• DVDs
• Copyrights submitted for processing
• Katarina Posch featured in a program
   for Austrian television

• A visit with Bakelite jewelry designer
  Jorge Caicedo

• Upcoming Screenings


VIEW JUNE 2018 Newsletter

Hugh and Sherry at the Summer Palace
Hugh and Sherry at the
Summer Palace

• NJ SAMPE Screening June 7
• Hugh Presents In China
• Science History Institute in Philadelphia
• Marc at NPE, Week of May 7
• Glenn Beall shows film


View APRIL 2018 Newsletter

Mike Ciulla, who opens our film with the line, "What is Bakelite," with Hugh
Mike Ciulla, who opens our film with the line, “What is Bakelite,” with Hugh

• Pequot Library Screening
• Road Trip to Philadelphia
• Images of Baekeland’s Lab
   Discovered & Scanned

• Katarina Posch on Design
• Upcoming: Shanghai, NPE Exposition,
   NJ Sampe


View FEBRUARY/MARCH 2018 Newsletter

Thermoset Topical Conference 2018

• Pequot Library Screening
• Thermoset Topical Conference
   Indianapolis, IN

• Upcoming: Rutgers, Shanghai, NJ Sampe


View DECEMBER 2017 Newsletter

Bakelite holiday pin

• NYU Tandon School of Engineering
  Screening

• 2017 Year in Review
• Loretta Gardner, Bakelite Corp
   employee interview


View NOVEMBER 2017 Newsletter

Hugh holds our new poster for design schools
Hugh holds our new poster for design schools

• Case Western Reserve University,
  Cleveland screening

• Design in Plastics Conference,
  Detroit screening

• Henry Ford Museum
• Upcoming: New York University, Tandon
  School of Engineering, Brooklyn


View OCTOBER 2017 Newsletter

Ghent University Medal
3-D printed replica of a medal originally awarded Leo Baekeland

• Belgium Trip: Ghent University, Helvoet
  Rubber & Plastic Technologies, & Austria

• Upcoming: Case Western Reserve
  University, Design In Plastics Conference,
  NYU Tandem School of Engineering


View SEPTEMBER 2017 Newsletter

Hugh and Bakelite table
Hugh Karraker, Executive Producer and great grandson of Leo Baekeland

• Upcoming Belgium Trip: Ghent University,
• Helvoet Rubber & Plastic Technologies,
   and Austria
• Bruce Museum and Cheshire Public
   Library Screening

• Upcoming: Case Western Reserve
   University, Design In Plastics Conference


View JULY 2017 Newsletter

John Maher, Hugh Karraker and Ron Dukenski on the set of "In Good Company"
John Maher, Hugh Karraker and Ron Dukenski on the set of “In Good Company”

• Name Change of Film
• In Good Company, Television Interview
• Upcoming: Bruce Museum, Cheshire
  Library, University of Ghent,
  Case Western Reserve University


View MAY 2017 Newsletter

• National Museum of American
  History Screening

• Bethel CT FilmFest 52 Screening
• WorldFest Platinum Grand Remi Award,
  Houston
• ANTEC in Anaheim


View DECEMBER 2016 Newsletter

Holiday 2016 Bakelite Letter
Bakelite holiday pin

• Happy Holidays from ATB Team

 


View OCTOBER 2016 Newsletter

• YoFiFest, Yonkers Film Festival Screening
• Our first newsletter

 


 

 

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