Gerald Pappa

Most of my career has been spent in Supply Chain management; designing, enhancing, and managing it, for some of the top speciality retailers in the USA, companies such as OfficeMax, Borders, USAi, including HSN, Ticketmaster, Universal, etc...also, as VP of Government Relations, and Washington Lobbyist for RR Donnelley, I was responsible for managing 800 million shipments per year, along with more than 5 Billion is annual operating expense. I retired from Supply Chain, due to my inability to travel extensively for business because of developing a serious degenerative spinal problems, and after 10 surgeries and the installation of alot of hardware, I decided to get my real estate brokers license, and open my own office and start a residential property management business in Tampa Bay...which takes you up to 2012. After graduating from UHS, I went onto YSU, where I got my B.S./B.A., and M.B.A. I am the Co-Chair of the YSU Tampa Bay Penguins Alumni Group, where we have near 2000 YSU Alums living in the Tampa Bay area....

Sophmore year, Father DeMarinis religion class...we are required to do an extensive report, maybe 5000+ words for a significant part of our grade that year in Demo's class. We all turn in our reports, and a week or so later, Father DeMarinis has graded them, and is about to pass them back to all of us, when he asks Charley Altof to come to the front of the class to read his report, as an example of the quality work that he had done....well Charley started to read the first part of his report, and it sounded pretty good, until he got to the complete lyrics to Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Band, over and over and over again, to take up pages of his report...Demo gave him an F, and told all of us "rumdums" not to ever do anything that stupid, because he reads all of our assignments...just another day, and another experience in Demo's class...