Larry L. Metcalfe arrived in Carrington at the age of 18 on August 15, 1961. He began his first teaching position in the city on the 28th of that month. He taught sixth grade in the elementary school that first year replacing Ms. Hallbert, who had retired. The next year he was moved up to the eighth grade and was named Junior High basketball and track coach. Teaching was his only love until August 17, 1968, when he married Lise Susan Rousseau. Lise, a registered nurse began work at the Carrington Hospital that same year.
In 1969, the Metcalfe's moved to Grand Forks for one year where Larry attended LIND and Lise worked at Deaconess Hospital. Obtaining his B.S. degree in elementary education in 1970, the Metcalfe's moved back to Carrington until 1973 when Larry worked for an insurance company as a field man for one year. He missed teaching so much that he resigned that job after only one year and the family moved to Hettinger, where Larry taught Junior High English and history and coached basketball and football. Lise worked at the Hettinger Hospital.
In 1974, the Metcalfe's moved back to Carrington again.
The Metcalfe's lived in Carrington until 1977, at that time Larry gave up teaching, with a great deal of remorse and entered the banking and insurance management career that he is still in. That year involved a move to Hersey, Nebraska for two years, a move to Devils Lake, North Dakota for three and one half years and then finally a move in August of 1982 back to their home town of Carrington, where Larry works for the Farmers State Bank and Lise is once again at the Carrington Hospital.
The Metcalfe's have two children: Brian William, born in Hettinger on February 6, 1974 and Christopher Neil, born at North Platte, Nebraska on April 10, 1978.
Source: A History of Foster County 1983 Page 32B