Paul Reese

Paul Reese (1917 to 4 November 2004) was a United States Marine Corps colonel during World War II who later became a high level administrator with the Sacramento City School District. He became a local running legend as a top age group competitor, a pioneer in the ultrarunning community and the founding race director of the Clarksburg Country Run, the first long distance road race in Northern California. He graduated from Christian Brothers High School in Sacramento in 1935 and earned a master's degree in administration at the University of California, Berkeley in 1940, and he served in the Korean War, flying 91 missions in torpedo bombers from aircraft carriers.