Bombing Injury Leads to Stepping Strong Fund, Award

BOSTON—When two homemade bombs were detonated along the course of the Boston Marathon in April of 2013, the lives of three people were taken away and more than 250 others were brutally injured. Sadly, countless victims suffered trauma and the loss of limbs.

One of the many survivors was Gillian Reny, daughter of Steven Reny, president of Andover, MA-based Standard Finishing Systems. Reny, who at the time was an 18-year-old high school senior and aspiring dancer, was among numerous people who were treated at Brigham and Women's Hospital. Thankful for the heroic measures taken by doctors and nurses to save Gillian's life and her badly damaged legs, the Reny family started The Gillian Reny Stepping Strong Fund.