Sharon Puglisi Rehn

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Work history: Worked in corporate america for ten years from 1964 to 1974 during which time I took numerous business and management courses.
During those years I managed multiple Data Processing and Operations Divisions. After taking a year off, in 1975 we moved to Red Bluff, Ca. to an 120 acre ranch and for a city gal (San Francisco) this was quite an experience, growing & canning food, killing chickens and my crowning achievement was skinning a pig...yep, glad that is over. In 1981 when the kids went off to college we moved 30 mi. north to Redding where we still reside. During the past 35 years we have owned and operated several businesses in construction, land development, marketing, communications and a partnership in a national co-operative in communications. In 2002 we sold our communication company and in 2006 we sold our interest in the last of the businesses, the nat'l
communications co. It has been quite a ride and I guess there were a few achievements worth noting. In 1990 our communications co. was awarded Redding Business of the Year and in 1992 I was chosen as Redding Business Woman of the Year. As you can imagine, we were very active in the community and the community kindly recognized our efforts. Lastly, during 16 of the years we were in the communications business we had an affiliation with Pacific Bell and marketed their products along with our own services and products. We were proud to be one of the top 20 producing businesses in the State of California for them each of those years being annually recognized for that achievement. Thankfully, the end.

Carlmont was a bit of a character building experience in a couple of ways. First, I learned tenacity and perserverence when I ran for Pom Pom 3 times and lost. Second, I learned flexibility considering I was a Commercial Art major who ended up in business with many, many, many business endeavors. I did use my CA major doing some of the graphics in our businesses so I guess it wasn't a complete waste. Louis Frangione would be so dissappointed if I squandered all his efforts to mold me. And the coup de grace is my experience with a great teacher, Ms. Jolly Hospers who with extrodinary skill managed to "humble", as she stated "one of the most obstinate students she had ever encountered", me, of course and something my French teacher Ms. Henderson never managed. After Ms. Hospers finally broke and re-trained me, I was the only student she invited to her wedding, I guess she believed I learned the lesson and gratefully, she was right.

Let me see, what else rings a bell? Of course, the day we stuffed 13 people in my folks old '49 Cad. capone wagon and headed to Foster Freeze for lunch. The cop who stopped me counted in amazement as he directed the kids stuffed everywhere, including the guys in the trunk, to get out. Everybody but me had a good laugh and hopped numerous rides to Foster Freeze while I "with humility" (lesson learned above) listened to his tirade on my irresponsibility, which unfortunately my folks and the judge who suspended my license agreed. Such happy memories! Remember, I was a CA not English
major, so you smarties...be nice.