I was there at the dedication with Representative Chris Tuck after 29 years of campaigning for the creation of this building.

Over the decades I published and distributed my United Alaska Campaigner economics newsletter, published many letters to the editor in Alaska newspapers, stood on street corners to pass out my newsletters, ran for public office two times, gave many public speeches, wrote letters to elected officials, and passed out my newsletters in the Alaska State Capital building in Juneau advocating for the creation of this project.

I received official government letterhead thank you letters from United States Senator Frank H. Murkowski and State of Alaska Representative Walt Furnace for my efforts to direct research funding to the University of Alaska to create this project.  I even produced and distributed the original concept drawings for the bridge crane building the project was primarily built on.

After all these efforts much of which is documented here on this website, on the day of the construction dedication, as important politicians where giving speeches, I was escorted off the property by campus police for distributing my newsletters at the event.

Being escorted off campus at UAA had become a regular event over the years in my distribution of my economics newsletter.  As it turns out the economics professors at UAA had read some of my newsletters in the past and considered the distribution of my newsletters “disruptive” to the program they were teaching.  Apparently, my ideas were being too effective in influencing students.

When I was on campus passing out my newsletters one or more of the economics professors would call the police to have me removed for being “disruptive” even though I have always been a super friendly engaging personality happily passing out my newsletters.

I learned another hard lesson that day.

I welcome anyone truly interested in what happened that day to read the very first 1984 issue of my economics newsletter that has the title “Where is your plan Marco?”