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Before his eight years in Mississippi, Larry held several other senior management positions, including Station Manager of KOED-TV/Channel 11 in Tulsa, Oklahoma; General Manager of KOSU-FM in Stillwater, Oklahoma, where he also taught print and broadcast journalism at Oklahoma State University; and Deputy Executive Director for the South Dakota Public Broadcasting network in Vermillion.
A graduate of the Executive Management Program at the Harvard Graduate School of Business, Larry also was Chairman of the National Educational Telecommunications Association and was on the Boards of the Satellite Educational Resources Consortium, the Mississippi Council for Educational Technology, the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters, and Mississippi Ballet International, Inc. He also served as President of the Naval Reserve Association in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
His military background included four years of active duty as a Navy Journalist. He was Program Manager of the Armed Forces Radio and Television Service (AFRTS) facility at the U. S. Naval Base, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. He later was Manager of the radio and television operation aboard the aircraft carrier USS Saratoga (CVA-60). Subsequently, Larry was commissioned in the Naval Reserve and completed assignments ranging from the Pentagon to the Naval Post Graduate School at Monterey, California. He also taught public affairs seminars at the U. S. Naval Academy before retiring in 1994 as a Commander. His final tour of duty was as Naval Liaison Officer to the State of South Dakota.
Larry’s early career involved announcing, sales, news, and management positions with KCSR, Chadron, Nebraska; KDUH-TV, Hay Springs and Scottsbluff, Nebraska; KMA Radio, Shenandoah, Iowa; KAYS-AM-TV, Hays, Kansas; and KMEG-TV in Sioux City, Iowa. In the mid-1970s, he was Director of News & Public Affairs for the University of Texas-Austin Communications Center with responsibilities at both KLRN-TV and KUT Radio.
An avid “blogger,” Larry has created sites for several organizations and his own Black Hills Monitor. In April 2007, he was appointed by the Governor to the Board of Directors for Educational Telecommunications, which oversees South Dakota Public Broadcasting.
A native of Chadron, Nebraska, Larry has a Bachelor of Arts from Chadron State College and a Master of Science in Journalism from Iowa State University. He and his wife, Karen, live in Spearfish, South Dakota. They have two grown children, Bradley and Jill, and three granddaughters.
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