Link Piazzo and Ranson Webster have
been inducted into the Junior Achievement
Business Leaders Hall of Fame
Reno native Piazzo , a veteran of 67
combat missions in a B-25 during World
War II, developed Hidden Valley and the
Hidden Valley Country Club and launched
The Sportsman retail store with his brother,
Chet.
The brothers also were co-owners of
KTVN Channel 2, pioneered Reno's first
shopping center and built two others.
Webster began business in Reno as a
sales engineer with Control Data Corp. in
the late 1960s. Later, he took a fledgling
Reno-area company in 1972 and parlayed
a $16,721 capital investment into a multimillion
dollar corporation. He sold
Computing Resources, Inc. to Intuit in
1999.
JA Business Leaders Hall of Fame
Laureates include John Ascuaga, Lynn
Atcheson, George Basta, Frank Bender,
Bruno Benna, Donald F. Bently, Fred
Boyd, Ben Caramella, Lt. Governor Bob
Cashell, John Cavanaugh, Sr., Sue Clark-
Johnson, Dr. Joe Crowley, Ben Dasher,
Fred Davis, Jr.,T.J. Day, Michael C.
Dermody, Norman L. Dianda, Carl
Dodge, Fred H. Dressler, Joan L. Dyer,
Dick Elmore, JoAnn and Jim Elston,
Dorothy Gallagher, Valerie Glenn, Preston
Q. Hale, Martha Jones, Moya Lear,
Luther Mack, Ernie Martinelli, Bernice
Matthews, Rollan Melton,Warren Nelson,
Harry Parker, Andrea Pelter, State Senator
William Raggio, Jack Reviglio,Tom
Reviglio, Phil Rose, Robert Rusk, Ella
Savitt, Leo Seevers, Fred and Sherry
Sibayan, Larry Tuntland, Virgil Wedge and
Ron Zideck.
