'A man of integrity and character': Reynolds golf coach Lewis Green dies after battle with pancreatic cancer
Sep 5, 2017The man many people at Reynolds High School knew as “Sarge” died Monday morning after a battle with Pancreatic cancer.Sergeant Major Lewis Green, who’s been the head boys golf coach at Reynolds since 2005 and coached at Reynolds for 26 years, died at the age of 67. He also taught in the JROTC program at Reynolds from 1993-2012 before retiring from teaching. He left behind a wife, Alice, and a son, Buck, and two daughters, Rosalind and Sharon, from his first marriage.“Look at his track record. Just look at the kids that he’s touched their lives in some way,” Buck Green said. “You see where they’ve gone in life. You’ve seen how motivated they were able to stay. It speaks for itself.The outpouring of love that I’ve gotten since he’s gone, and people have been telling me about he changed their lives, they wouldn’t have been able to be the man they are, the woman they are without him.”Lewis Green was a former paratrooper who was stationed at Fort Benning, Ga. Green didn’t start playing golf until he was 30, but he picked up a passion for it while watching a fellow serviceman hit balls.He retired from active duty in December 1992 and joined the ROTC program at Wake Forest. He came to Reynolds just a month later. Green initially coached football at Reynolds, but he became an assistant coach to Howard West on the boys golf team.When West left in 2005 to become the boys basketball coach and athletics director at Reagan, Green took over as the head boys golf coach.“Lewis — first and foremost — he was a man of integrity and character,” West said. “You don’t get to be where he was in the military service with those leadership qualities and not be that kind of a person.“He helped me with golf a few years before he took it over at Reynolds. We got to spend a lot of time together going back and forth to the matches, and playing practice rounds and all that kind of stuff.”Dr. Art Paschal took over at Reynolds after Stan Elrod retired, and Green and Paschal formed a tight bond.“I kind of got to know Sarge, and we had a lot of things in common,” P... (Winston-Salem Journal)