Larry Striplin Jr
Larry D. Striplin, Jr (born November 11, 1929 in Selma) is a businessman and philanthropist. He is the former CEO of Nelson-Brantley Glass Company and Circle "S" Industries.
Striplin was born to Larry D. and Ethel Henderson Striplin and graduated from A. G. Parrish High School in Selma. He attended Spring Hill College in Mobile, and graduated from Birmingham-Southern College in 1951. He received his MA in Education from George Peabody College in Nashville, now known as Vanderbilt University.
In 1963, Striplin purchased Nelson-Brantley Glass Company and has been CEO since that time. In 1971, he founded DISCO Aluminum Products, and in 1977 founded American Fine Wire, which became one of Selma's largest employers. Striplin sold off most of Circle S in the early 1990s, and sold NelBran in 2011.
Striplin was instrumental in establishing the Alabama Sports Hall of Fame, serving for 13 years as Chairman and a total of 23 years on the hall's board. He serves as chairman of the Bryant-Jordan Student Athlete Foundation. He has served on the board of directors at HealthSouth, where he was chairman of the compensation committee. He resigned from HealthSouth during the accounting scandal in 2003. He has also served on the boards of Superior Bank, Kulicke & Soffa Industries (which purchased American Fine Wire), Robins & Morton Group among others. He is a trustee at University of South Alabama and at Birmingham-Southern College, where Striplin Field and Striplin Sports Center are named in his honor. He has served as chairman of the Birmingham Park and Recreation Board, member of the Birmingham Business Leadership Council, board member of the Alabama Sports Foundation and the American Sports Medicine Institute.
He is the father of four children and has nine grandchildren.