Take a bow: Longtime theater director retires from Lometa ISD

  • Elizabeth Dickison
    Elizabeth Dickison
  • Lometa ISD theater director Elizabeth Dickison stands on stage under the lights one last time Wednesday afternoon. She will retire from the education field after 41 years — 39 of those spent in Lometa. MONIQUE BRAND | DISPATCH RECORD
    Lometa ISD theater director Elizabeth Dickison stands on stage under the lights one last time Wednesday afternoon. She will retire from the education field after 41 years — 39 of those spent in Lometa. MONIQUE BRAND | DISPATCH RECORD

    The year was 1982. Michael Jackson released ‘Thriller”; the first CD player ever sold was made in Japan; Time magazine’s Man of The Year was the computer; and a recession started in the United States.

    It also was the year an eager educator named Elizabeth Dickison began her long tenure with the Lometa Independent School District.

    Prior to that, she had been an elementary schoolteacher in Morgan for …