The 2018 Distinguished Graduate Awards

The calendar may have said May 22, the start of Grad Week at West Point, but the raw weather for the annual alumni exercises and cadet review for the 2018 Distinguished Graduate Award (DGA) recipients felt more like an extension of Gloom Period. But rain showers and temperatures in the low 60s could not dampen the spirits of the more than 1,100 graduates and guests who returned to their Rockbound Highland Home for the festivities, especially those of Col (USAF, R) Kermit Dyke '40, USMA's oldest living graduate, who at 103 years old walked from library corner and across diagonal walk to lay a wreath at the base of Thayer Statue, nor those of the six graduates who joined the legacy of 133 other graduates, just two-tenths of one percent of the Long Gray Line, who have been recognized as West Point "Distinguished Graduates": COL (R) Dana Mead '57, Mr. Thomas Barron '65, LTG (R) Larry Jordon '68, GEN (R) William Wallace '69, HON Sloan Gibson IV '75, and HON Douglas Lute '75. Full Story»