Rhonda Dehn always had a head for figures. Thus, when asked to work Saturdays at the family’s retail candy shop in Palatine, Ill., there were no issues when it came to computing sales taxes on purchases or giving out change.
“We didn’t have any computers back then [1967], so I had to figure out the sales tax in my head,” says the owner of Morkes Chocolates. Instead, what Dehn received — as a sixth grader — was an introduction to the family business.