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John J. Dickey Class of 1873 He served faithfully as Gods messenger to the people of Eastern Kentucky Licensed to preach in 1861, Dickey was admitted to the Kentucky Conference in 1873.
 
His ministry continued in that region of the state for most of the next 72 years. During his pastorate in Georgetown, a financial crisis of such severity occurred at Kentucky Wesleyan, that it caused the college administrators to seriously consider closing its doors.
 
Dickey was called in to counsel, and together, the administrators of the college worked closely with Dickey to develop a plan that saved the college. Dickey was subsequently urged to take on the presidency, but he declined.
 
By this time, Dickey had become so deeply interested in the people of the mountain section of Kentucky, that he felt it to be his mission field. He noticed there were no high schools in that area of the state, and the elementary schools that did exist were of the poorest sort.
 
So Dickey began a school in a one-room log court house of Jackson that afterwards became Jackson Academy, and then Lees Junior College the first such school in southeastern Kentucky and the forerunner of Hazards Community College of today.
 
The imprint Brother Dickeys work and life left on the mountain section of Kentucky was more than sufficient to say, He made a difference, a huge difference. Inducted 2007


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