Larry Stanford was Director of Public Relations at Pearl River Community College for 29 years. 
He was the longtime radio voice of Wildcat sports. He attended a record 266 consecutive Wildcat football games from 1971 until 1997, and kept statistics for all of the school’s sports teams. He personally witnessed nearly 200 football victories.
But, truth be known, Stanford was a fan at heart of Pearl River College long before he went to work there under former President Marvin White. 
"When I was 4 or 5 years-old, my dad or my uncle would take me to (Coach) Dobie Holden’s games in the 1950s," said Stanford. "I was just in awe of all those guys. In the 1970s, Joey Howard and I started doing research and compiling all those records. At the time, the state did not have any records, and they wound up using the records we had compiled.
"So, my relationship with the school lasts half as long as Pearl River College has been around."
And, that relationship is one reason Pearl River athletics gets the notoriety it does today.
Said head football coach John Russell, who coached the Wildcats (1967-73) during Stanford’s early years at the school, "Before Larry got there, we didn’t get much recognition in the newspapers. After he got there, we got more and more publicity."
"Even though I never played a down at Pearl River, to be included with these other great players is quite an honor," said Stanford. "There were some tremendous athletes who played ball there."
Indeed, and it was Stanford’s job to get them all the publicity he could. But his job at Pearl River involved much more than attending and publicizing sports events. Sports was not the focus when he was hired.
After graduating from Poplarville High and Pearl River, he received a communications degree from the University of Southern Mississippi. He took over his dad’s trucking firm, which was a seven-day-a-week job. While on the road one day in 1971, President Marvin White called Stanford with a job offer. 
"Dr. White knew I had a degree in communications," recalls Stanford. "He called and left word with my mom for me to call. So I called him from one of the dairy farms on the road. He said, ‘You want to be our public relations director?’ After working 130 straight days, I said, ‘Yes sir. I sure do.’ He said, ‘Be here Monday.’ I didn’t start that quick, but that’s how it started."
The job included teaching journalism classes, taking photographs, producing the yearbook and school newspaper, as well as writing news releases. He was even in charge of the campus post office for 18 years.