Arthur "Art" F. Dickerson died on May 4, 2017. He was born in Seguin, Texas in February 1926. Art enlisted in the U.S. Navy during WWII and was enrolled in the University of Texas at Austin, where he graduated at age 19 and married Colleen B. Patton. He was employed by General Electric, having worked there for twenty three years. When the family moved to California, Art worked for the Hughes Corporation, where he managed the High Voltage DC Research Lab in Malibu. Art worked in research and development all his life and eventually started his own corporation, Bluepoint Associates.
Art also taught, first for the University of Southern California and later for Cal Poly San Luis Obispo. He was a painter, a poet, a photographer, a singer and a dancer.
