In Memory of

Class of 1968
Date of Passing Jan 20, 1972

Dwight died in Thua Thien-Hue, Vietnam, as an intelligence analyst. I cannot imagine the darkness of that day, because in memory he’s always smiling and laughing, and he’s at the center of our attention. I didn’t know at the time what sourced his contagious and constant sense of cheer, but these fifty years later I think I do. Dwight embodied the spirit of aloha, the mystery that fills the world and unifies all of God’s creation. Simply, it’s love, and Dwight was a sixties’ flower child for real. He wreathed us in love like a lei and encircled us in aloha. Aloha … funny word. In Hawaiian, it means both ‘hello’ and ‘goodbye,’ releasing and returning the object of its attention to the universe and back. Aloha, Dwight. Mahalo.