After grad­u­at­ing from Drake Uni­ver­si­ty in 1967, Lar­ry worked at Arthur Ander­sen for the next 35 years, where he even­tu­al­ly became the Great Plains Region­al Man­ag­ing Part­ner. He served clients in five con­ti­nents until its demise in 2002. Lar­ry and his wife, Susan are the proud par­ents of quadru­plets — three sons and one daughter.