Congratulations Simone’ on winning two Outdoor State Championships in Class 3A
Lawrence (Larry) Harrison Hamlar brief bio
A Partial List of Accomplishments
L.H. Hamlar has received enumerable honors. He served as a board member/trustee or chaired many programs. He was the first black member and soon became the first black president of the Roanoke City School Board. Some of his other accomplishments in Civic/Community/Social Affiliations were:
- Beta Phi Boule of Sigma Phi Fraternity
- Burrell Home for Adults
- Chairman of Explorer Park during its formation
- First black member of Roanoke's exclusive Shenandoah Club
- First Federal Savings and Loan Association
- Governing board or membership with counsel of Boy Scouts
- Henry Street Revision Committee
- Honorary Doctorate of Human Letters from Roanoke College on May 8, 1999
- Honorary Doctorate of Human Letters from Virginia Seminary in Richmond, VA
- Humanitarian Award in 1988 from the Brother/Sisterhood citation by the Roanoke
Valley Chapter of Christians and Jews - Hunton YMCA Inducted into the Virginia State Sports Hall of Fame on June 5,
1999 - Junior Achievement Southwest VA Business Hall of Fame in TAP (Total Action
Against Poverty) - Kiwanis Club
- Member of Destination Education and helped established Roanoke's Higher
Education Center on May 22, 2001 - Named one of the most eligible bachelors by Ebony Magazine
- National Association for the Advancement of Color People
- Noel C. Taylor Distinguished Humanitarian Award in 1993
- Omega Psi Phi Fraternity
- Pine Valley Golf Association
- Roanoke Ballet
- Roanoke's Citizen of the year in 2000 and received a key to the city
- Roanoke Civic Center
- Roanoke College - Trustee and Board member for 15 years
- Roanoke Memorial Hospital
- Roanoke Symphony Society
- Roanoke Science Museum
- Small Business Administration
- United Negro College Fund
- Virginia Western Community College - board member 8 years and president of the
board 2 years - Wall of Fame Honoree of YMCA family center in 1999
