Link Piazzo, Ranson Webster

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.