He became a kind of compass for the values of striving for the public good held by Alaska’s early leaders.
Vic Fischer speaks to a crowd Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2019, outside the Boney Courthouse in Anchorage. Fischer is best remembered as the last surviving delegate to Alaska’s Constitutional Convention in 1955-56, but his remarkable life spanned important periods in world history, as well as for Alaska.
For many of us, Vic provided a valuable window into what Alaska was like before statehood. He also became a kind of compass for the values of striving for the public good held by Alaska’s early leaders. Vic was one of those, with his deep involvement in the statehood movement along with the formation of municipal government in Anchorage.
What struck me about Vic’s early leadership at ISER was that he was not afraid to employ young, independent economists who documented important and unpopular facts about some of the boondoggles Alaska politicians were promoting. The Institute was on UA’s Fairbanks campus at the time and I remember Fairbanks businessmen putting intense, but unsuccessful, pressure on university leaders to fire Vic and one of his economists, Arlon Tussing.
Vic and ISER also helped organize the Alaska Science Conference in 1969 at UAF, where the prime topic was how to build the trans-Alaska oil pipeline safely through permafrost, which could be melted by the hot oil in the line.
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