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Nominator and Seconder - Larry Kreyling
Nominator - Joan Avioli
From the day he was elected captain of his high school football
team, through his time in the Second Armored Division of the U.S.
Army, his decades as a key administrator in public education to his
years in business as a special projects coordinator/human resources
representative for Dierbergs Family Markets, Larry Kreyling has been a
leader in all his endeavors.
I have known Larry for over 30 years starting with my entry into the
English Department of McCluer North High School in North St. Louis
County. Larry had risen rapidly in the district from teacher to assistant
principal and eventually to principal of a school with an enrollment
of 2,000 students. The school for which he was responsible was newly
designed and constructed as the Ferguson/Florissant district became
the first to be court-ordered desegregated in the state of Missouri. The
challenges were many and required steady leadership, attention to detail,
a talent for delegating responsibilities wisely, and firm courage. Larry
met all challenges. On his watch, McCluer Nor Ѡ