LARRY LIPKER...

Julie:

Once again I would like to say thank you 
for all of the work you guys have been
doing on our reunion.  I am still unsure 
if my wife and I will be able to attend 
but I thought I would give you an update 
on what I have been doing over the last 20
years.  

Summers of 1988,89,90,91 and maybe 92 
spent primarily in Huntington at Robby's 
with Teddy Hall and Scott Osborne trying 
to convince Bobby Pullem that 1:30 am was 
plenty of time to "hook up"

After graduation I enrolled at EKU and 
transferred to Campbellsville College 
where I played baseball and met my wife.  
I graduated in 1993 with a degree in 
Secondary Education/Social Sciences.  
I started dating my Dawn during the 
fall of 1991 and we have been married 
since November of 1995.  She also 
graduated from Campbellsville
with a degree in Communicatons/Theater.  
After 1 year as an assistant coach at 
Campbellsville I started teaching and 
coaching at Spencer County High School 
right outside of Louisville.  After a 
year of bus duty, cafeteria duty, hall 
monitoring, and not nearly enough 
baseball I decided to go back to the 
college ranks.  I was then hired by 
Morehead State University as the 
pitching coach.  While we were in
Morehead we decided to start our 
family with a dog named Slider who 
turned 12 this year.  My wife was 
communiting to Lexington every day 
going to school and working at
the Lexington Childrens Theatre.  
She received her Masters in Theater 
from UK.  Also while I was at 
Morehead State I got my Masters 
Degree in Secondary Education/
Guidance and Counseling.  

After five years at MSU I was hired 
to be the head baseball coach at Viterbo
University in Wisconsin.  While coaching 
at Viterbo I also worked with the Texas
Rangers and Arizona Diamond Backs as 
an Associate Scout.  My wife continued 
to teach Theater in the local community 
theater and as an adjunct professor at 
Viterbo where she also worked in the 
admissions office.  I coached at Viterbo 
for 4 years and then accepted the King 
College head coaching position to get 
closer to home.  While I was coaching at 
King College Dawn also worked at the 
school as the Director of Transfer
Recruitment in the Admissions Office.  
After my 1 and only season at King a new
athletic director was hired and I was 
bought out of my coaching contract so 
he could bring in his own people.  
So then we sold our house and packed 
up for Indianapolis, Indiana where 
I accepted an assistant coaching 
position at Butler University.  I was
only there for about 4 months and my 
wife was offered a job at Georgia Southern
University in Statesboro, Georgia 
as the Director of Graduate School 
Recruitment. She had followed me around 
for so long it was my turn to follow 
her so I resigned from Butler 
University and began working as the 
Baseball Facilities Manager at
Georgia Southern University.  
I recently accepted a new position 
with the Georgia Southern Athletic 
Department to become the Director 
of Baseball Operations.  

Dawn and I really love Statesboro,  
we live an hour away from the beach 
and plan on sticking around here a while.  
After reading all of the blogs 
I really realized how far behind I am 
with children.  Dawn and I do not having 
kids but are thinking about
starting a family in the near future.  

I would like to say hello and best 
wishes to all of our classmates and 
I hope that I have an opportunity 
to be a part of this reunion.



Larry

Comments

[dave obrien]

larry!!!!!!!
how are you doing? well, i
know how you'er doing. i'm glad you have alot going
for yourself and your
wife dawn. i'm proud of you
dude. between you and me,
dawn is a pretty girl. you take care of her. or she'll take care of you....

[Jed]

Kano,

Get busy with the kid making already !!!!

[Will Tanner]

Living the dream in GA? I like it. I lived in Athens from 1992-2000 -- best years of my life. Enjoy!

[Mickey Moran]

Kano!!! How are you doing? Wow!!! Would love to hear from you. Give me a call. 270-465-1745.

Mickey

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