Catalog Success recognizes four industry professionals named to the top honors among catalogers.

By Reported Donna Loyle

Getting up the guts to start a business was the greatest challenge she has ever faced, Vernon told Catalog Success.

“Being a woman who wanted to start her own company in the 1950s, at a time when society dictated that women stay home, raise their children and take care of their husbands … I met resistance from my husband who felt I shouldn’t embark on a risky idea,” she recalls. “My friends couldn’t understand why I wasn’t content being a wife and soon-to-be mother. … My mother also challenged my decision.”