William Jewell College Athletics

While at WJC Larry was a three-year letter winner in baseball and was named a second team NAIA All-American shortstop in 1969. Libeer hit the game winning home-run in the bottom of the 13th inning to win Jewell’s first and only team National Championship in 1968 over Georgia Southern. He was member of J Club and Physical Education Majors Club and graduated with a degree in physical education.

Upon graduating from WJC, Larry served in the military in Vietnam for two years and received his M.Ed. degree with emphasis in special education at the University of Kansas. He taught in New South Wales, Australia, for two years before returning to the United States, where he taught briefly in Wichita before beginning a teaching career in the Kansas City, Kan., public school system. Larry is married to Marjorie, an attorney for the Kansas NEA, and the have four children: Bronwyn and triplets Annie, Will and Tony.