Penn State Collegian
Larry Driever (pronounced dree-ver) made Trafford proud, and by all accounts, his life story is one of success worth highlighting as part of our Trafford History. In May 1940, Driever became the Business Manager of the first daily newspaper at Penn State, The Daily Collegian. The newspaper, first established in 1904, the same year Trafford was founded, was only being published twice a week. Driever, Trafford High Class of 1937, was then a junior at Penn State when he was put in charge of getting the first issue of The Daily Collegian published on September 5, 1940.
Lawrence Sebastian Driever, born in Pittsburgh, raised in Level Green (Meadowbrook plan), graduated from Penn State in 1941. Following graduation, he was appointed an ensign in the US Naval Reserves. When World War II broke out, Driever would serve aboard the USS Raliegh as deck officer, and later he served as a naval aviator, attaining the rank of Lt. Commander.
After the war, he attended Columbia University Law School, graduated in 1948, and was admitted to the New York Bar. Until his retirement in 1985, Driever was a vice-president of a materials company (metals and mining). He began a second career teaching at Drexel University. He was a trustee at The Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences, served as a trustee of Arcadia College, and was counsel to the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics. He was married for 66 years to Frances Ann Leiby, and father of two sons Lawrence Jr. and Steven.
Driever was inducted into the Penn State Alumni Hall of Fame in 1991. He passed away on December 21, 2010, at the age of 91.
