Vice President, Chrysler Corporation (retired)

Education:

• B.S. 1936, Mechanical Engineering, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville

Rinehart Bright had a career that spanned 25-plus years at Chrysler Corporation. His profession had him designing and manufacturing automobiles in New Orleans, Indiana and Detroit. Bright retired as vice president of Crysler in 1977.

While attending the University of Tennessee, Bright participated in Tau Beta Pi, the National Engineering Honor Society and was a member of Sigma Alpha Epsilon. He worked shoveling coal into dormitory furnaces and other side jobs to pay for his education.