Lloyd Wayne Dvis was born on July 16, 1929, exactly 16 years to the day
  before the world's first nuclear explosion at TRINITY SITE in the New Mexico
  desert, an event which was later to play an important role in his life. His
  birth site was the downstairs bedroom at 201 South Walnut Street in Medicine
  Lodge, Kansas, still occupied by his mother, Edith Elda (Furnas) Davis and
  Frank Davis, his step-father.
     Edith was born on October 13, 1904, in Oxford, Kansas, but moved to
  Barber County to a farm southeast of Sharon with her parents, Will Frame
  Furnas and Estella Mary (Prater) Furnas, in 1914. Wayne's father Lloyd
  Davis, was a pioneer resident of Barber County, was born on a farm just
  southwest of Sharon, Kansas, on NOvember 1, 1881. Lloy's parents, Ellis
  Cummins Davis and Effie Jane (Kirkpatrick) Davis, had settled in the
  Christian colony at Sharon in early 1880 after traveling from Mulkeytown,
  Illinois, via train and covered wagon. It should be noted that this was only
  thirteen years after the Peace Treaty with the Plains Indians (Apache, 
  Arapahoe, Cheyenne, Commanche, and Kiowa tribes) near Medicine Lodge in
  1867.
     Wayne went through the entire school system at Medicine Lodge with
  straight "A's". He played the trumpet, sang in numerous choral groups, and
  participated in all sports (football, basketball, and track), lettering in
  all three in his Sophomore through Senior years. Wayne also considered
  scouting very important and attained the rank of Eagle Scout with a Silver
  Palm.
     Wayne graudated as Valedictorian from Medicine Lodge High School in 
  1947. He then went on to the University of Kansas on a Summerfield Scholarship
  (limited at that time to the top 20 boys from Kansas), pledging Sigma Chi
  fraternatiy. He spent his first two years in the Engineering School and his
  third year in the Business School under the Industrial Management program.
  He then transferred to physics and graduated "first" in the School of
  Engineering with a BS degree in Engineering Physics in 1952. His honorary
  societies included Sigma Pi Sigma, Tau Beta Pi, Sigma Tau, Beta Gamma Sigma,
  and Delta Sigma Pi.
     Wayne married Patricia Joan Bottorff (born November 24, 1930) in Medicine
  Lodge on August 20, 1950. This marriage was dissolved 11 years later on July
  17, 1961. Two children were born of this marriage, Robert Lloyd Davis on
  March 6, 1952, and Cheryl Sue Davis on May 25, 1957. Bob graduated from the
  University of Colorado and is now an Architectural (Structural) Engineer with
  R.W. Beck in Denver, Colorado. Cherly is in her Junior year in the School of
  Nursing at the University of Northern Colorado.
     After graduation from K.U. Wayne moved to Albuquerque, New Mexico, where
  he joined the staff of Sandia Laboratories, a nuclear weapon research and
  development company. He spent four years there as a staff member and one as
  a consultant in the Systems Analysus Research Department. While there he
  led a research program leading to a new nuclear weapon capability greatly
  enhanching the tactical delivery of high-yield nuclear weapons from low-
  altitude, high-speed fighter-bomber aircraft.
     Wayne left Sandia in 1957 to join a group of four other ex_Sandians to
  form The Dikewood Corporation, a research company or "think tank" now 
  employing some 200 people from California to New York with headquarters in
  Albuquerque. He has been with the company some 22 years, progressing through
  a series of titles from Research Physicist to Deputy Director to Sr. Vice
  President and Secreatary of the Board of Directors. He is slated to become
  President and Chairman of the Board in July, 1979.
     Much of the work of the company has been in the field of nuclear weapons 
  effects, which is Wayne's specialty. He directed a 10 year study of some
  35,000 case histories from the nuclear attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki,
  Japan, which led to the development of the methodology for the prediction
  of personnel casualties from high-yield nuclear bursts in the United States.
  Other benefits included increased knowledge of how to protect the civilian
  population and how to survive a nuclear attack.
     Wayne witnessed SHOT SIMON of OPERATION UPSHOT-KNOTHOLE in April, 1953,
  from an observation point on Yucca Flats at the Nevada Test Site about 7
  miles from one of the largest above-ground bursts (300-foot tower) ever
  detonated in the continental U.S. The white heat, boiling wave and precursor
  racing across the desert landscape were sights never to be forgotten. In
  1965, in connection with the casualty studies, he also visited the Atomic
  Bomb Casualty Commission and some of the major structures, such as the Bank
  of Japan, which survived the nuclear attack on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. More
  recently, his nuclear effects studies have emphasized the electromagnetic
  pulse (EMP) from a nuclear burst and its effect on the vulnerability of
  weapon systems such as the MX missile and the AWACS early-warning aircraft.
     To backtrack a little, Wayne obtained a Fellowship from the University
  of New Mexico and attended night school for several years before receiving
  his M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering in 1959. Other honors accorded
  to him by UNM were election to Sigma Xi, Phi Kappa Phi, and Kappa Mu Epsilon.
  He was later elected to American Men of Science, Who's Who in the West, Who's
  Who in Finance and Industry, and Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical 
  and Electronic Engineers.
     Wayne later met Betty Louise Pyke of Wichita, Kansas (born November 23,
  1928, in Amarillo, Texas), the only chiuld of Robert Hastings Pyke and Mary
  Charles (Boyd) Pyke, and they were married in Wichita on September 7, 1963.
  William Wayne Davis was born of this marriage on November 2, 1965.
     Betty graduated with a B.A. in Fine Arts from Wichita State University
  in 1952. After working in Germany for two years, she resumed her studies
  towards an M.A. in Fine Arts at WSU. She still spends as much of her spare
  time painting as possible, but a busy family life and a new home in Albuquerque
  keep her quite occupied.
     Bill is a seventh grader at Jefferson Middle School wehre he maintains
  a straight "A" average, plays First Trumpet in the Advanced Band, and is
  quite involved in all sports. He has just attained his Star rank in scouting
  and is working on the Life award.
                
     Source:Chosen Land - Barber County, Kansas,  pg. 150 
     Submitted by: L. Wayne Davis