Evon Peter: Inspired leadership
October 25, 2016
"I started playing pool when I was 17-years-old here at the Wood Center. I fell in
love with the game and would play three hours a day, most days, I eventually created
a billiards course at the university and lobbied it through the faculty senate and
got hired as an adjunct faculty during my undergraduate years here. I was the first
adjunct faculty of billiards at UAF. So that was part of how I paid my way through
my undergraduate was literally playing pool, both as an adjunct and I also played
in tournaments. I started the game national ranking and I had this choice when I was
21, graduating with my bachelor’s to either pursue the professional billiards tour
or move back to the village and go to work for my people and I decided that I was
better off living a life helping my people than being on the professional pool tour.
I gave up the dream of getting on the pro tour, but I still enjoy playing the game."-Evon Peter
UAF Vice Chancellor of Rural, Community and Native Education