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Alice Baker Obituary (1933 – 2021) – Anchorage, AK


Alice Lelia Baker, 87, passed away September 23, 2021, at Providence Alaska Medical Center, Anchorage due to respiratory failure. Services will be held at a later date.
Alice was born November 17, 1933, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She graduated from Grove City College, Grove City, PA in 1951; she later earned her Bachelor of Engineering in 1978 from the University of New Mexico, Los Alamos.
In 1951, Alice married James Joseph LaRotonda. To this union, four children were born, and the family lived in Toledo, OH, Denver, CO and Los Alamos, NM. Alice married Lara H. Baker on December 6, 1975, they made their home in Los Alamos, Derwood, MD and finally to Anchorage in 2004 after visiting since 1978.
Like most women of her generation, Alice was raised primarily to be a homemaker. She gracefully expanded the notion of homemaker to include exemplary service to her community and to the security of our nation. She started her professional career as a data analyst with the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory in Los Alamos, NM in 1968. She retired as an expert in information security and in the security of special nuclear materials, retiring in 1991 as the Director of the Department of Energy’s Center for Computer Security. She then continued her information-security work with private industry and US Government clients.
Alice was a very active member of the Anchorage Amateur Radio Club including serving in various officer positions and managing communications for a number of Anchorage-area events. She was noted for her handcrafts, especially knitting and cross stitch. She was active in Knitters of the North in Anchorage. Earlier in her life, she was an amateur artist of some note.
Alice always provided a welcoming, comfortable, and safe home for her family. She managed this under the strain of combining two very disparate families and she always did so with grace, wit and calm. She did this while working full-time at very stressful jobs. She provided love, contentment, joy and support to her husband, Lara, over their nearly 46 years together.
A family member wrote: “Alice, to me, was the example of a women who managed to have a reasonably balanced professional career and raise 4 or (7) good human…

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University Of Alaska Anchorage: UAA College Of Engineering Dean Finalists Announced


Information regarding the College of Engineering Dean finalists is now available.
Listed in alphabetical order, the finalists are:

Bruce Berdanier

Bruce Berdanier is currently Professor and Dean of the Jerome J. Lohr College of Engineering
at South Dakota State University.

He has been involved in leadership in higher education administration as a department
head and dean since 2008.  He led student international development projects in the
Artibonite Valley of Haiti beginning in 1995 and has directed an international engineering
development program in Bolivia since 2009.  He has teaching, research, and leadership
experience at both private and public universities and was a Fulbright researcher
in Jordan.

Open forum: Monday, April 5, 9-10 a.m.

The feedback survey for Bruce Berdanier will be posted here on April 5 and will close
on Wednesday, April 7 at midnight AKDT.

Joesph Bull

Joseph Bull is the Associate Dean for Research, Faculty Affairs and Graduate Studies
in the School of Science and Engineering at Tulane University, and is the John and
Elsie Martinez Biomedical Engineering Chair. Prior to moving to Tulane, he was Arthur
F. Thurnau Professor and Professor of Biomedical Engineering at the University of
Michigan. Professor Bull’s research program is focused on ultrasound and biofluid
mechanics. He is a Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering,
and a Sequoyah Fellow of the American Indian Science and Engineering Society.

Open forum: Thursday, April 8, 9-10 a.m.

The feedback survey for Joseph Bull will be posted here on April 8 and will close
on Saturday, April 10 at midnight AKDT.

Judy Cezeaux

Judy Cezeaux is Dean of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Arkansas Tech University. 

She received her B.S. degree in mechanical engineering from Carnegie Mellon University
and her Ph.D. degree in biomedical engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
Prior to her appointment at Arkansas Tech, she was Professor and Chair of Biomedical
Engineering at Western New England University in Springfield, Massachusetts. She has
also served as a Senior Staff Fellow at the National Institute for Occupational Safety
and Health in Morgantown, West Virginia as well as a…

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Letter: Taxpayer assistance puzzle – Anchorage Daily News


Here is an interesting conundrum. When I worked at the Internal Revenue Service in the late 1970s, I learned to file my tax return in person, so as to get the IRS date stamp on my copy as absolute proof of filing. (The alternatives are to submit by mail or file online. If by mail, even if sent registered or certified, all you can prove is that they got something, but not what. If online, it is always possible that the computer can hiccup and lose the return. Computer security is much better now than it was initially, but I am old school, so I continue to file in person. I want that date stamp.)  

With that in mind, I went to the IRS office in Midtown Anchorage to file my return, only to be told that, because of COVID-19 concerns, I had to have an appointment — and I couldn’t make one then and there, even though there were no other taxpayers present — to take the time of the taxpayer service personnel. I was given a phone number to call to make an appointment.  When I called the reservation number, a computer recording told me that I had to go online to make an appointment. Back home, I went to the indicated site, where I learned that appointments must be made by phone, and the number given was the same number I had been given at Taxpayer Service. So on the phone, they want you online, and online, they want you to phone. That explains the empty parking lot at IRS: You can’t get there from here.

Isn’t bureaucracy wonderful?

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Seattle Airport Bust Scoops Up Alaska-Bound Drugs – Free Internet Press

Seattle-Tacoma International Airport officials are calling it their largest drug bust ever, and all the cocaine was headed to Anchorage, Alaska. Three men, including two Anchorage residents, were indicted Thursday on federal drug conspiracy charges …

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