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Memories of a Vandal great

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Memories will be abundant and freely shared Tuesday, June 6, at the Celebration of Life for Vandal Athletics Hall of Famer Wayne Walker at Boise's Hillcrest Country Club.

Last Saturday, Walker's teammate and lifelong friend Jerry Kramer shared some of his fondest memories of the man he first met as a freshman at the University of Idaho.

"He drove up from Boise in a '48 Studebaker convertible," Kramer remembered of his first meeting with Walker. "He thought it was the only '48 Studebaker convertible in the world. Well, I drove a '48 Studebaker convertible down from Sandpoint.