Gerald Potter (Dick) Dickinson of Mt. Pleasant, South Carolina passed away on Tuesday, December 14, 2010, after an extended illness. Born in Durham, NC on February 6, 1935, Dick was married to the late Caroline Haskell Pinckney Dickinson for 49 years. A native of Beaufort, North Carolina, Dick spent his early years boating in and exploring the rivers and sounds of his beloved Carteret County and watching movies with friends at his family’s theater on Beaufort’s Front Street. After graduating from the Admiral Farragut Academy in St. Petersburg, Florida, he attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and graduated from The Citadel in 1958 with a degree in Political Science. With a career on the Charleston Waterfront which spanned over fifty years, Dick retired from Dickinson, Mikell and Comar, Inc., a Customs House Brokers Foreign Freight Forwarders company and DMC Shipping in 1989. In his retirement, he worked for FedEx International Transportation. Dick was a member of Saint Andrew’s Episcopal Church, the Propeller Club of Charleston, The General Society of Colonial Wars in the State of South Carolina, Huguenot Society, Fort Sumter Camp of the Sons of Confederate Veterans, Palmetto Guard, Carolina Supper Club, Charleston Republican Party, the Citadel Brigadier Club and the Citadel Class of 1958 Tailgate Club.