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My Story - Larry Harnisch
Last Updated on 3/17/99
| I graduated from Catalina when
I was 16 and entered the University of Arizona, graduating with a degree
in music when I was 19. I entered graduate school in music history while
working a variety of part-time jobs; I was a janitor at United Parcel
Service for several years and was an intake clerk for six years at Juvenile
Court, where I occasionally saw fellow alumnus Jim Wheelock, a Tucson
Police Department officer. |
Larry M. Harnisch
1101 Foothill St. South Pasadena, CA 91030 Home: (626) 441-0999 Work: (800) 283-6397 Ext. 75886 e-mail: lmharnisch@earthlink.net Married 1983 One son, Arthur, born 1984 |
| In 1979 I reentered the UA as an undergraduate in the journalism
program and was hired by the Arizona Daily Star as music critic and feature
writer in 1981. At The Star, I won honorable mention in the Arizona Press
Club’s statewide competition for column writing, judged by Mike Royko.
While researching a story on the musical ancestors of fellow Catalina
alumna Linda Ronstadt, I met my wife, the former Cynthia Hayes, who was
working at the Arizona Historical Society. In 1985, in order to care for my young son in the daytime, I transferred to the Star’s copy desk. I worked there as a copy editor and news editor until 1988 when we moved to Los Angeles, where my wife had been offered a job at the Gene Autry Museum of Western Heritage. I was soon offered a job at the Los Angeles Times, where I am now a copy editor on the Metro Desk. During my years at The Times, the Metro section has won Pulitzer Prizes for our coverage of the 1992 Los Angeles riots and the 1994 Northridge earthquake. While in Los Angeles, I occasionally had lunch with fellow alumnus Merl Reagle, a noted crossword puzzle constructor now living in Florida. I am currently working on a book about the 1947 Black Dahlia killing. |
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