Key player: William Larson

Job title/Occupation: Leadership Project Director at Ohio University Southern.

Hometown: Portsmouth, Ohio.

High School: Cleveland's SHHS.

College and major/degree: Heidelberg College - sociology, Bowling Green State University - PhD. educational administration & communications theory.

Additional training: Columbia University Superintendent's Annual Work Conference, regular participant at Conferences of the National Council of College Professors of Educational Administration.

Community involvement: The Ohio University Leadership Project - grassroots organization started in 1994 to provide professional development for current school administrators. This organization has ongoing cohorts of superintendents, secondary principals, elementary principals and treasurers. There are 80 participants in each cohort.

Mentor: Doesn't have one.

Family: Nancy (wife), Sarah (daughter).

Outstanding qualities: Determination.

Favorite Web site: http://www.nytimes.com.

Item you can't live without: Coffee.

Favorite book: Book of Common Prayer.