proved to be the contribution that made him the must proud, because it gave to each neighborhood a voice in the issues and decisions of the town. He encouraged local residents to participate in council and assembly meetings, and through civic engagement, he helped to establish Anchorage Trail Systems. After attending Harvard Kennedy School, he became the Alaska State Energy Director, a member of the Oil and Gas Royalty Development Advisory Board in 1984–85. He became Chairman of the Alaska Democratic Party from1985-88. In 1980–81, he began to research information to write his book Crude Dreams: A Personal History of Oil and Politics in Alaska that was finished and published by Epicenter Press in 1997. In 1997, during the administration of President Bill Clinton, there was news about the possible nomination of Jack Roderick as a member of the Arctic Research Commission. Roderick shared his life experience and expertise in business law as an adjunct professor at the University of Alaska Anchorage, and as an instructor teaching about Alaska's Oil Industry at the Alaska Pacific University. He became part of the Chancellor's Advisory Board at UAA and also UAA's College of Fellows. Legacy Roderick's biggest legacy to the community of Anchorage was the Community Council, which has become the Anchorage Federation of Community Councils. One day, during lunch at his house with his wife, Martha, and his brother, tired of listening to him about how wrong the officials were going about helping the community, his wife asked him to run for Mayor and that's how it all began. The Community Council idea was taken from a Mayor from the city of Oregon. He served as a mayor of Anchorage from 1972 to 1975, managing a budget of $100 million and had 2,000 employees in a city of 175,000 people. References Mayors of Anchorage, Alaska 1926 births 2020 deaths Yale University alumni University of Washington School of Law alumni Harvard Kennedy School alumni University of Alaska Anchorage faculty Alaska Pacific University faculty