TONIGHT: Polaris Lecture: Clem Tillion on 'Our First 50 Years: a mixed bag, more good than bad,' Oct. 18

Tuesday, Oct. 18, 7:30 p.m.
Anchorage Museum at the Rasmuson Center

The seventh Annual Alaska Day Polaris Lecture, "Our First 50 Years: a mixed bag, more good than bad," will be given by Clem Tillion, a pioneer of the Halibut Cove community who became a leading state legislator, serving nine terms and helping to start the tradition of paying Alaskans an annual dividend from the state's oil wealth before retiring as Senate president in 1981. For 58 years he was married to Diana Tillion, a leading Alaska artist who painted with octopus ink; she died last year.

This Polaris Lecture, which is free and open to the public, is sponsored by the Cook Inlet Historical Society, the Anchorage Museum Association, Forty-Ninth Fellows Program, University Honors College and The Polaris Society.