Wayne Dillard:  

Attended the University of Florida from 1958 to 1960 before entering the US Air Force Aviation Cadet program to become a Navigator. Medically (eyesight) disqualified and spent a few years at Chanute AFB in Illinois where I met my wife-to-be, Janet Predmore, of Muscatine, Iowa. Off to the University of Wyoming in the Airman Education and Commissioning Program where I earned a BS in Civil Engineering. Our son, Brian, was born in Laramie during my junior year. Completed Officer Training School, commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant, and assigned to Cannon AFB in Clovis NM where our daughter Catherine was born. Sent to Texas A&M for graduate studies by the Air Force followed by an assignment to Vietnam. Then came four very enjoyable years at RAF Lakenheath in England before completing my military obligation as a Captain (all those years in Laramie and College Station had to be paid back with interest) and starting work with a consulting engineering firm in Pennsylvania. My engineering career took us from Pennsylvania to Milwaukee, to Orlando, then Nashville, back to Illinois (Peoria), and finally to Kansas City where I retired from Burns and McDonnell Engineering Company in 2007. In the process I obtained professional engineering licenses in 12...Expand for more