Larry Wunderle

Bellows Falls Middle School Six grade teacher 1970-2003

Bellows Falls Middle School girl’s basketball coach 1972-1985 (and again before retiring)

Bus driver for the town of Rockingham 2003-2015

First lifeguard at the Saxtons River Recreation Area

Baseball Coach for the Saxtons River Little League

Drummer for the American Legion Colorguard and The Chester Brass

Larry had the BFMS Yearbook dedicated to him twice and was the recipient of the Bellows Falls Middle School Outstanding Teacher Award. He won UVM’s Outstanding VT Teacher Award and the Bellows Falls YMCA Service to Youth Award. He received the American Legion Appreciation Award and became an honorary member of the Jessie A. Judd chapter of the National Honors Society.

He was on the board at Our Place and taught Religious Education at Kurn Hattin Homes. He was a Deacon at the First Congregational Church of Westminster

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Larry organized, drove and chaperoned school-wide trips to Boston, Connecticut, New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington and Montreal.

He invited every 6-grade student to join him at Keewaydin’s Environmental Education Center during Spring break, each year. He would then encourage the 7^th graders to join him in participating in Seyon Ranch’s winter programming.

He and his wife Bette Wunderle chaperoned a group of Bellows Falls students to Germany for a month one summer.