WBHS Hall of Fame: Tommy Dickens

Dickens was also a four-year starter for the powerhouse Bulldogg baseball teams that won three straight Region championships, was state runner-up in 1959 and would earn the Single A State baseball championship title in 1960.

A sturdy and dependable catcher, he also provided plenty of pop with the bat as witnessed by his monster homerun against Pepperell in the state championship game. Not one to rest for long, that same spring he would also go on to capture the Single A high jump championship at the state track and field championship meet.

Ever a popular classmate, Dickens was voted senior class president, Mr. WBHS and was an honor student. His excellence on the field and in the classroom would earn him a scholarship to attend and play football at Georgia Tech, a first for Winder Barrow at a Division I university.

Dickens would go on and earn his bachelors and master’s degrees in Civil Engineering as a Yellow Jacket. A proud member of the Armed Services, Dickens served in the U.S. Army where he was awarded the Bronze Star Medal for service in Vietnam and would retire from the US Army Reserve with the rank of Lt. Colonel.

He is married to a Winder girl, Susan (formerly Susan Sharpe) and returns often to Winder to visit his mother, Miriam Burns, and his brother, Dr. Jack Dickens.