strong desire to serve his country during world war ii. the. he enrolled in perdue university as an air force cadet and served in the u.s. air force in germany from 1945 to 1946. . e attended the university of am go, canes. he pitched forou university's baseball team. in 1949, l a 42-year career at florida power and light company. 42 years. starting from the bottom, he worked his way from being a line man digging ditches and climbing power poles to being vi pthe state's largest electric utility. while excelling at this dilt j doubties, larry re-enrolled in school while working for the company and degreerom harvard graduate school, business school advanced management program executives. never one to limi himself, larry devotetrary e d efft commun serving in over 36 local, regional, state, and national community service organizations which earned him many accolades. larry also played a founding and integral role in the development of management systems to improve the quality and cost of goods and services produced throughout our great nation. in 1987, president ronald reagan requested that certain s. cporatis pre a team of