Show tun 4 Jy I It IF t F Ij j RUSSELL E DICKENSON heads recreation area N Newly Chosen Flaming Gorge Superintendent Russell E Dickenson assist assist- assistant ant superintendent of Zion Nat Nat- lonal Park Utah has been ap- ap appointed appointed pointed superintendent of Flam ing Gorge National Recreation Area Wyoming Utah Lemuel A Garrison director of the Nat ional Park Services Service's Midwest Regional Office announced this week AT FLAMING Gorge Mr Dickenson will succeed Carlock E Johnson project manager of the new national recreation area during its first stages of deve deve- development Mr 1111 Johnsons Johnson's transfer as superintendent of Isle Royale National Park Mich was ann ann- announced announced recently Mr Dickenson 42 was born in Melissa Tex lIe attended North Texas State College and Louisiana Polytechnic Institute State College Flagstaff Ariz In 1946 Mr Dickenson began his career in the National Park Service as a park ranger at Grand Canyon National Park Ariz lie He remained at Grand Canyon Canyon until 1953 advancing to the position of district ranger Then followed tours of duty at Platt National Park Okla Chir- Chir Chiricahua Chiricahua National Monument Ariz Big Bend National Park Tex Glacier National Park Mont and Grand Teton Nation Nation- National al Park Wyo He was appointed assistant superintendent of Zion National Park in 1963 DURING WORLD War II Mr Dickenson was an officer in the US Marine Corps and later also served in Korea |