The event: the monthly meeting in mid-1995, at Trinity University, with Microsoft as presenter. Windows 95 was to be launched that August. Interest was extremely high — at almost the same intensity level as the Beanie Baby Bear giveaway with Furby bonus thrown in.

I’d have gone home as soon as they told me there weren't any more seats. But Larry's no wimp; he stuck around. And he got a seat. He joined Alamo PC that same night and has been active ever since.

Later, when the call went out that more volunteers would certainly be welcome to help Don Wright set up at the monthly meetings at Alamo Heights High School, Larry pitched in whenever he could. “I just did a little of this and a little of that,” he explains; “none of the tough stuff that Don's skilled at.”

Now, as many who attend the monthly meeting know, Larry is the Software Review Coordinator. This is arguably one of the more fun volunteer jobs, since Larry gifts members with some awfully nice software or instructional books in exchange for a written review for future publication in the PC Alamode. Behind the Santa Claus appearance of the job, though, lies a lot of work. Acquiring the product and setting up an equitable system for availability to interested members take time. And, I am sure, a minuscule amount of coordination is infrequently needed to keep us few procrastinators on target.

You'll occasionally see Larry's byline in the PC Alamode. In thumbing through past issues, I found two for software for young children. Son Jackson, age 4, and daughter Zoë, who just turned 6, easily explain the former. “The younger kids have been around and fascinated by computers from the time they were infants,” says dad. “They were really into lapware, followed the visuals avidly, and learned to manipulate pointing devices early on.” Sarah, their 17-year-old, jumped into computing at a later age, before lapware came along, but handles high school research and project completion with the typical aplomb of a 90s kind of gal!

When he's not wearing one of his many work and family related hats, Larry enjoys sports. He's into tennis, (having sacrificed his knees for basketball during a prior decade), roots for his home team, the Miami Dolphins, and remains optimistic about some obscure San Antonio pro basketball team.