Martin Hickman

Dr. Martin B. Hickman, former director of the Brigham Young University Jerusalem Center and former dean of the BYU College of Family, Home and Social Sciences, died Oct. 14, 1991, of a heart attack.

Of the 23 years Dr. Hickman worked for BYU, he spent 17 years as dean. He taught international relations at the University of Southern California between 1961 and 1967. He also worked for the U.S. State Department in Hamburg, Germany; Hong Kong; and Berlin, and was the only person to pass the foreign service examination in 1954.

Dr. Hickman served as director of BYU’s Jerusalem Center for Middle Eastern Studies from 1988 to 1989. He retired from BYU in 1990.

“There are only a couple of dozen people at BYU who have had the impact that Martin Hickman had, both while he was here and beyond his tenure. He was a true friend to everyone at the university who knew him, including faculty members and students,” said BYU President Rex E. Lee.

Dr. Hickman was born in Monticello and was raised in Logan.

He fought on the front lines of France and Germany in World War II and later served a mission in France for the LDS Church.

 

Information is exerpts from a Deseret News article: https://www.deseret.com/1991/10/15/18946020/former-y-dean-dr-martin-b-hickman-dies-of-heart-attack