A sawed-off 6-foot bow section of a concrete canoe stands upright in a Duckering Building
hall, part of a display about engineering at UAF. Look closely, and you’ll see a subtle
image of a harpoon pressed into the boat’s floor.
Kyle Agustines sold shoes after high school — enough of them that at 18, as a store
manager, he earned a five-day business trip to five-star hotel in Nashville. But he
wanted to go to college.
