George Lloyd Bunting (1909-1990), 1985 December 13

George Lloyd Bunting grew up on Maryland and Northwest Avenue in Baltimore, Maryland. His father, Dr. George Avery Bunting, worked as a clerk in a drugstore before purchasing the business and renaming it Bunting's Drug Store. In 1917, he sold the business to open his own skin cream business, Noxzema. While his father was building the company, Bunting studied at Washington College, where he graduated in 1932. After graduating, Bunting worked for his father at Noxzema, and also began school at the Baltimore Business College. While there, he met his wife, whom he married in 1933. In 1944, Bunting was drafted into World War II. Although the Noxzema business suffered during the war years, they embarked on a successful marketing campaign that paid off in the post-war years. In 1949, Bunting became the president of the Noxzema company, where he remained until retiring in 1963.