Sunday, January 29, 2006

123. Son of Deering ex-principal

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Vaughn Ververs is the new editor of “Public Eye” a CBS news e-zine. His autobiographical introduction includes the following paragraph:
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But my real Alaska adventure occurred in Deering, another Eskimo village located on the southern rim of the Kotzebue Sound and about 50 miles south of the artic circle. We spent three winters there when my father accepted a job as principal of the small school (in 2003, the population of Deering was 138). Since we returned to Colorado during the summers, we missed out on the constant daylight, but the bitter cold winter nights spent staring at the dazzling Northern Lights remain strongly embedded in my memory. As do the kind and loving Inupaik people who lived there.
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On the negative side, he worked for the Buchanan campaign.
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If you want to read the article, it is at http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/08/30/publiceye/main806218.shtml

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