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and chemistry lab were all lost. The damage was estimated at $ 150,000. By 1938, a new gymnasium and 700-seat auditorium named Arter Hall was completed. In 1938, Dickason was inaugurated as the appointed
President of Bluefield State Teachers’ College. Dickason led the college as a new wing was added to Conley Hall to house a new library, a new women's dorm, and a men's dorm were built, faculty houses were built and the land was acquired to eventually build a new Technical Education building. Dickason received a U.S. government appointment as a consultant in the National Youth Administration. Dickason chartered the Pi chapter in 1914 as the fifteenth chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha. It was the first Black Greek Letter organization in Cleveland, Ohio. He served as National General Secretary and General President of Alpha Phi Alpha. In 1941, the Dickasons adopted five-year-old Robert Andrew Dickason.
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will dated June 22, 1875, Monroe Co. Wills, Book 11, page 537. Dickason attended
Chestnut Grove School for his early schooling. He began attending high school at Bluefield Colored Institute (BCI) in Bluefield, West Virginia, in 1903. While there, he worked at Bluefield Hardware. Dickason graduated in 1906.
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Division of Vocational Training was added and included courses in carpentry, plumbing, sheet metal, auto repair, and others. Dickason oversaw the construction of a building to house this new Division. The Technical Education Building was later renamed Dickason
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Bluefield Colored Institute (BCI) to begin his teaching career. He taught mathematics, assistant coached the football team and led several school organizations. On August 26, 1914, Dickason married Grace Robinson. They both continued teaching at BCI. Grace died
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Bluefield State Teacher's College. Within months of his appointment, a devastating fire destroyed Mahood Hall, the main building on campus, on April 23, 1937. The gymnasium, auditorium, library, administrative records, classrooms,
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September 9, 1886. He was the second of three children born to Guy and Fannie Dickason. His paternal grandparents, Raeburn and Nancy Jane Dickason, had been slaves to Jacob Dickason. When Jacob Dickason died, he left all his worldly possessions, including land, to the Dickasons. Jacob Dickason
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Technical Science Building at Bluefield State College, constructed under Dickason's Presidency, was designated the H.L. Dickason Hall. The Peters Mountain Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution honored Dr. Dickason on June 1, 2015, when a marker was unveiled in
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Teachers’ College was renamed Bluefield State College. Its expanding curriculum now included nursing classes, partly as a result of World War II and the need for nurses in the military. In 1949, Dickason guided Bluefield State College to meet the requirements of the
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Bluefield State Teacher's College, the high school program was discontinued, and Dickason was appointed dean. In 1932, Dickason married Flossie Mack, another teacher at Bluefield.
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