Larry Briggs:
CLASS OF 1952
Maysville High SchoolClass of 1952
Maysville, OK
University of Oklahoma - Fine ArtsClass of 1956
Norman, OK
Gladewater High SchoolClass of 1952
Gladewater, TX
Larry's Story
College
Entered the University of Oklahoma in the summer of 1952. Took 5 hrs of Spanish and flunked 5 hrs of Spanish, mainly because I was having a real good time being away from home, drinking, playing pool for big money, ping pong, poker and chasing girls. Took 5 hrs of Spanish again in the fall term and flunked it again. Now on scholastic probation for a year. Played baseball for the first 2 yrs and made the team. Ran intramural track and beat Tommy McDonald in the 100 yd dash, the year he almost won the Heisman Trophy. Was involved in the first college campus panty raid and made the front pages of all the Oklahoma papers and some of the national ones. Stole the master key to all the pay phones on campus and spent 2 more years on probation for that. Pledged Si...Expand for more
gma Nu fraternity and they were put on social probation for a year because of their parties. Went to all the Texas/OU football games at the Cotton Bowl in Dallas and sing the Eyes of Texas in the OU student section (that always went over well). Met my first wife (Shirley Bennett)as an Alpha Phi blind date,and married her the following year to keep from getting drafted and sent to Korea. Majored in Advertising Design and received my BFA in 1956. Hired someone to take my Junior English spelling and English test at the beginning of my senior year and he flunked spelling for me. Had to take the class in my final semester for no-credit. Still all-in-all, ended up on the Dean's Honor Roll my last 2 years there. I had a hell of a good time, even though I was a from Texas.
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