Posted by Kim Flint on June 7, 2015:

I met Dwayne for the first time on R-Day for the Class of 1964. We were in the 1st Platoon, 1st New Cadet Company, in the old South Area. As luck would have it, we both were assigned to Company M2 at the beginning of Plebe Year, and we were both involved with Plebe Football, as non-recruited footballers who were spotted during Corps Squad screening during Beast Barracks, and it continued as we both were on the Plebe basketball team. Dwayne, and roommates Chuck Richards and Steve Bettner, were right upstairs from my room that first academic year, and there were many times during that year when we made walks together to and from practices for those two Corps Squad sports. Dwayne and I became "famous" for one day during that Plebe year when at reveille formation one early December morning, the two of us were conducting the first snowball fight either of us had ever experienced, as that boy from Waco and me from Longview (both in Texas), were seeing snow for the first time. Fortunately for us, the upperclassmen in M2 let us slide. We made several trips back to Texas from WP on Air Force Reserve training flights from Stewart AFB to the Air Force Base in Wichita Falls for Christmas and Summer leave. We were probably not ever in any classroom together, as Dwayne was a star man from the get-go, and yours truly was usually in the lower sections, except for Spanish. Not 100 percent sure, but I seem to recall enduring Yearling year with Dwayne on the "B" Squad football team, getting banged around every week as we had the opportunity to play on the scout team trying to replicate the next opponent on the "A" Squad varsity schedule............. When we got "scrambled" at the beginning of Cow Year, our interactions became random, at best, although we would always try to catch up on the latest things we were both involved in. With graduation, that situation was enlarged, as Dwayne became a Corps of Engineers officer, and I went Field Artillery, although I recall that we both had initial assignments in Germany. Future interactions after that seem to have been in/around Class Reunions. Well done Dwayne, be thou at peace, and I know that you are busy engineering things up there for The Lord.

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