50 Years Ago (or thereabout)
From the Farthest-North Collegian, June 1956

Max C. Brewer Is New Head of Arctic Lab

Dr. Ernest N. Patty, University of Alaska president, this month announced the appointment of Max C. Brewer as director of the Arctic Research Laboratory at Point Barrow, Alaska.

The university operates the laboratory under contract with the Office of Naval Research. The facilities attract from many parts of the nation scientists who are interested in Arctic research.

The new director will assume his duties in September, approximately one month before Dr. Ira L. Wiggins, present director, returns to Stanford University where he is professor of biology and director of the Natural History Museum.

Brewer is with the geophysics branch of the United States Geological Survey at Menlo Park, Calif. He first came to Alaska in 1948 to make geophysical studies on permafrost. For several years at Barrow he was project chief of the Arctic Ice-Permafrost Project of the geophysics branch of the U.S.G.S. He conducted studies on the temperatures and thermal properties of permafrost and seasonal frost chiefly on the north slope of the Brooks Range of mountains.

While at Barrow he married a nurse working there with the Alaska Native Service. She and their child will accompany Brewer to his new post.

25 years ago
From the Northern Sun, May 1,1981

Open-ended . . . Off her duff and on stride
by Fran Hove

Musings on a day when I didn't feel like writing a column, but was gently informed by my editor that deadline was near and to get off my duff.

Thank goodness for the warm, sunny weather increasing the dropout ratio. I can finally find a parking spot on upper campus no matter what time of day I show up.

After walking bent over all winter looking for hidden ice and walking bent over all spring leaning into the wind, how am I ever going to adjust to walking upright when summer arrives?

It might be a nice gesture if the pencil sharpeners throughout the Gruening Building were repaired and in good working order before school starts next semester.

I have to wonder if professors teaching Tuesday-Thursday classes have feet as tired as my behind after spending an hour-and-a-half on them twice each week.

Most mothers of daughters I know are very concerned that their daughters be brought up believing in equality and the "Let's share the work" system. I can only hope the parents of sons out there are teaching them the same things.

I hear a large number of complaints on the coverage and quality of both the Northern Sun and the Polar Star. It might be interesting to find out how many of the people voicing the complaints go into the newspaper's offices and offer their help to see if they can improve the situations.

Overheard in an elevator in the Gruening Building this semester; "Those students have a lot of nerve using the elevators in this building. I think the elevators should be only for staff." Did the young woman not realize that she and rest of "the staff" would not be necessary were it not for "those students."