Roy Dickson 1930s Alaska Bush Pilot |
FIRST TIME PUBLISHED Third Printing |
ABOUT the EDITORS |
Copyright Roy Dickson, Jr. & Dorothy D. McLaren |
Roy Dickson, Jr. and Dorothy Dickson McLaren have vivid memories of adopted "hometowns" as their family moved to Alaska, then to California, Texas, and finally to Oklahoma where they each graduated from University of Tulsa. |
Dorothy's degree led to her teaching high school business subjects, plus many years as a secretary and homemaker. Her 49-year marriage to Ben McLaren included 17 years in Texas, then moving "way out East" after retirement to North Carolina, Tennessee and finally, to Fayetteville, Georgia, where she now resides. Her hobbies include non-fiction writing, travel and history. She became interested in writing while helping with her mother's manuscript about her father's flying adventures. Encouragement came from writer's groups in Tennessee and Georgia. Members of Dorothy's family are daughter Sharon and her husband Kevan Brady, and son Scott with wife Mary McLaren along with their children Cecilia, Lucy and William. |
Roy, Jr.'s math degree led to his enjoying a 33-year career in Information Technology with Phillips Petroleum Company. Roy and wife Cassandra now reside in Nashville, TN, and his hobbies include genealogy, film-making and fishing. Roy's family includes daughter Julia and her husband Michael Skelton, son Roy Shelton Dickson, III. |
VIEW the KTUU Channel 2 Anchorage TV FEATURE ASSIGNMENT ALASKA 8/13/2010 at the Book Signing at the Alaska Aviation Heritage Museum in Anchorage VIEW the VIDEO |