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eben hopson is my great uncle!!!!!!
Jessica Brower Smith <jessie_babe24@hotmail.com>
Barrow, Ak USA -

JON, WHAT A GREAT WEBSITE.. I'VE COLLECTING INFO ON DAD FOR MY KIDS TO HAVE AND READ,WHAT A SITE..YOU KNOW THAT WE AS HIS KIDS TRAVELED AND LIVED SOME OF THE EXPERIENCES HE WENT THTOUGH,I HAVE ALOT OF INFO ABOUT DAD AS I KNEW HIM SINCE I CAN REMEMBER. WHAT A CHALLENGE OUR FATHER LIVED, FOR HIS OWN PEOPLE,I JUST WISH HE WOULD HAVE LIVED TO SEE THE CHANGE HE DID FOR HIS OWN PEOPLE. GREAT JOB IN YOUR WEB SITE, JON..MY KIDS DIDN"T GET TO KNOW HIM, BUT THANKS TO YOUR SITE, THEY ARE LEARNING ABOUT THEIR AAPA.AGAIN,THANKS
PATRICK J. HOPSON <PHOPSON@NVBARROW.NET>
BARROW, AK USA -

Thank you Adeline, for telling me about the website when I approached you and told you that I had chosen to write about Eben for a college writing class. The assignment was to write about a lengendary figure from my family. Tuff choice for me; Hopson's are a huge family! To pick one was going to be a difficult because so many have attributed to great works up here in the North Slope! This website was incredible source and I'm truely proud to have chosen Eben.

Sandra Sturmer <ss@wollk.com>
USA -

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Anchorage, AK USA -

I am interested in writing essays and so forth about a great man. And what it took to get where Barrow is currently at economically because of many men like Eben Hopson, Sr. Job well done Jon and Thelma.

Jeannie Brower <agvitchiaq@alaska.net>
Fairbanks, Ak USA -

Hi, such a great website. I am researching the life and times of a Scotsman named Duncan Pryde (1937 - 1997), who lived in Barrow for about 2 yrs approx 1975/76, and taught native languages at the Inupiat University. I would really like to hear from anyone in Barrow who still remembers him. Thanks! Laura Clark
Laura Clark <ljc51@aol.com>
San Diego, CA USA -

Thank you for this site with the wish that we don't forget Mr. Hopsons ideas about co-operation between the arctic peoples.
Robert O. Akpik, Jr. <rakpik@hotmail.com>
Barrow, AK USA -

Hi!
Douglas Aishanna
Kaktovik, Ak USA -

Superbly done! I wish I had been able to meet a man of such strength, courage and dignity. Those types of men are few and far between on the OUTSIDE. C.Hanson
Superman <corbetthanson@hotmail.com>
Seattle, WA USA -

It was is very interesting to read up on my Aapa. Will be back to finish reading. There is so much information that I never knew. I feel as if I have meet them all after reading this. VERY GOOD JOB!! I will be very happy to read and show this to my kids so they too can learn and know what a great man his was and still is through this website. Thanks alot Jon and Thelma
Kuutuuq Olemaun <kuutuuq02@yahoo.com>
Barrow, ak USA -

OoOwIeE! This WeBsItE is soo cool! I didn't know MY Aapa Eben did all this! I learned more about him, and what he did to make a difference! Although, I didn't know him.. He must've been a very very very great guy!;) *Aapa Eben is Forever in all our hearts!* "THIS GOES TO ALL MY CUZS OUT THERE! IF AAPA CAN DO IT..SO CAN YOU! CUZ..YOU NEVER KNOW WHAT YOU CAN DO UNTIL YOU TRY! YOU JUS GOTTA TRY HARD AND BELIEVE IN YOURSELF! I LOVE YOU ALL!" -Molly! Thanx JON for creating this website! (its soo cool!) LuV fRoM MOLLY!
Molly <hopsonmolly@hotmail.com , molly_black_13@hotmail.com>
Barrow, Alaska USA -

Great to read of the wonderful Eben Hopson. I have a copy of a photo of Eben and my uncle Pete Walsh when they served in the Alaska Legislature representing the Barrow/Kotzebue/Nome region - the "IceBloc." I look forward to reading all of the items listed on the site. Thank you and best regards to the Hobson family.
John M. Walsh <jmwalshco@gci.net>
Douglas, AK USA -

This is a great website....I never knew so much about my Aapa....I never got to meet him, but after reading this it makes me feel like I meet him.....people tell me he was a great man and this website tells other just that also...thanks and keep up the work...!!!!
Chastity Olemaun <eskimo_girl39@hotmail.com>
Barrow, AK USA -

Hi everyone, it is a great pleasure to say that my mother's brother Eben has touched so many lives when he was with us. (My mother is Ethel Hopson Ungarook) I am always looking for sources of information and this is one of them that I have used. For those of you wondering if Hopson's in Alaska are related to Hopson's in Canada I believe Alfred Henery Hopson came from Wales but I have also heard he came from Liverpool, England, maybe there is a connection somewher if we did more research together and keeping in contact, never know we just might surpise ourselves. Have a good day! Quyanaqpak! Hi Flossie!
Linda Akootchook <ak_linda@hotmail.com>
Barrow, AK USA -

This site is a labor of love. Great information, great tribute to a leader, and example of the best the North Slope has to offer. It brings back many memories. Best to all who stop by the site, and thanx Jon. BW
Bob Worl <b.worl@attbi.com>
Sacramento, CA USA -

Quyanaqpak!! Wonderful site, and makes me proud to know of my Aapa - he was a great man, and I know from words of praise, you've helped our family threw alot Jon. Thank you for always being there! I hope someday to meet.
Francine Hopson-Rochon <francine_hopson@natchiq.com>
Anchorage, ak usa -

Hi. I am Abel Hopson-Suvlu. Eben Hopson is my Aapa and this site gives me a chance to know about him more. Thank you Jon you done a great job. -Abel Hopson-Suvlu AHS
Abel L. Hopson-Suvlu <alhopson@barrow.com>
Barrow, Alaska USA -

This gives me a chance to see all the wonderful things that my Aapa has done. I'm grateful to be able to have this information about him since I didn't get a chance to meet him. Jon, you've done a wonderful job putting this website together. Thank you.
Rebecca A. Hopson <Rebecca_Hopson@Natchiq.com>
Anchorage, Ak USA -

how are the hopson family from alaska related to the other hopson family from canada.any relations from kent,england ,that's where our family is from.all across canada and england.thanx lyle
lyle hopson <lyho62@hotmail.com>
kamloops,bc, canada -

Excellent website! This has a lot of great information on him.
Lisa Hopson <lm_hopson@hotmail.com>
Barrow, AK USA -

Enjoyed reading about our brother...with Sandra, Lollie and Engi on Jan 23,2002...first day the sun came up at Barrow!!!! Very impressive, and we are proud of our brother's contributions. Thank you very much. Ruth Hopson Biden, Fairbanks, Alaska USA
Ruth Hopson Biden <rb.biden@gci.net>
Fairbanks , Ak USA -

Eben is my great uncle the brother of Edward E. Hopson Sr. my Grandfather.if you have any info on Edward please let me know where I can find it. Thank you, Baxter B. Hopson
Baxter B. Hopson <judymae@barrow.com>
Barrow, Ak. USA -

Eben is our uncle and we are so proud to say that we are where we are today because of Eben's leadership, I am Bertha Panigeo, Borough clerk for the North Slope Borough which my uncle started. Thank you uncle Eben may God be with you and bless you forever.
Joseph & Bertha Panigeo <jnbpanigeo>
Barrow, ka USA -

Nice job, Jon! It is a wonderful tribute and a great collection of valuable historical information.
David Harding <second.story@home.com>
Omaha, NE USA -

Wonderful site!! Great to learn about our grandfather. Keep up the good work!
Cathy, Richard, Abel and Caitlin. <alhopson@barrow.com>
Barrow, AK USA -

Wonderful Work! Keep it up..
Lynne, Lisa, Abel and Caitlin Hopson <alhopson@barrow.com>
Barrow, AK USA -

Great website - keep it up - we'll visit again.....
William, Carolyn, Jessika,Jaylene, Jonathan Wm. & Eben Wm. K.Y. Hopson <whopson@barrow.com>
Barrow, AK USA -

Its great to visit this website and find that you've added more. We'll keep visiting...
William, Carolyn, Jessika, Jaylene, Jonathan William U. & Eben William K.Y. Hopson <whopson@barrrow.com>
Barrow, AK USA -

Thanks for a Very interesting and informative site
Stephen Hopson <hopson@wheatenhouse.fsnet.co.uk>
uk -

Thank you for this site with the wish that we don't forget Mr. Hopsons ideas about co-operation between the arctic peoples.
Ole Heinrich <sajare@greennet.gl>
Nuuk, Greenland -

This is a great site. I like all the useful information
Patrick Sonsalla
Kaktovik, AK USA -

This is a very good site. Thank you for the useful information.
Patrick
Kaktovik, AK USA -

Thank you for the interesting site for Eben Hopson. It was nice to look at. I will have to show it to my kids when I get internet at home. Thank you. Hattie
Hattie Aishanna Reick <Hattie.Reick@starband.net>
Kaktovik, AK USA -

I was in Barrow back in 1986, and I know it is a special place. For the people of the North Slope, expecially the children, we must keep it out of the hands of those who would exploit it. Thanks for the site and all the information contained therein. Senator Hopson spoke from the heart.
Jane B Edwards <jbez@altavista.net>
Redwood City, CA USA -

Hi John& Thelma. Just feeling a little homesick for my family so I read a bit about Dad. Wow, you added a bit more since the last time I checked. So grateful that you inspire the rest of the public and even grandkids. Make me feel like I visited with family for a little while. I have a new email if you haven't got it. It's flossiea@bbna.com Well, hope to say hello this summer to you and Thelma. Today, I guess I felt homesick because it's the anniversary of Emory's burial.Anyway, thanks again and see you sometimes.
Flossie Jay Andersen <flossiea@bbna.com>
Dillingham, Ak USA -

Bonjour mes amis de d'Aslaska!
M, Levesque <levesqum@vianet.on.ca>
Canada -

Hey, I go my man. :o)
Nuka Johnsen <nuka73@icqmail.com>
Upernavik, Greenland -

This is a great website! Exciting to get to know who he was and what he did for the Iñupiaq people, and for the Education systems. Thanks alot!
Nancy Hopson <naninaaq_jane17@hotmail.com>
Barrow, , Ak USA -

all of it as it only wants to make me want to finish the time I have left,not down here but up there in "GODS COUNTRY" as far up as I can go. It is hell down here in the lwr 48.
Ralph A. Burnett. <rbgorilla@MSN.com>
San Bernardino, 92402, Ca. USA -

I am very pleased when Eben Hopson's grandchildren read of their grandfather here on this site and learn of his greatness.
Jon Buchholdt <jon@buchholdt.com>
Anchorage, AK USA -

Wow. i never really knew much about what my grandfather and great grandfather, after reading this i was almost in tears i read it on the 7 of november which happened to be My grandpa's birthday. Happy birthday. Love Melissa
Melissa A. Hopson <melissa_hopson@mte.educ.ak.state.us>
Barrow, AK USA -

This information on this website is great. Good job.
Clarence & Marie Itta <clancy@barrow.com>
Barrow, Ak USA -

This a really interesting site. My whole family has read it.
Josh Hill
Duluth, MN USA -

This is a good site!
aaron leischke <aleischke@lsc.edu/>
Duluth, mn USA -

We will be visiting Barrow on Aug. 11, 2000. Looking forward to our visit.
Eloise Geiselhofer <egeiselhofer@yahoo.com>
Burbank, IL USA -

This is a great opportunity to get to know my aapa's life and how important life and his culture is to him
Kuutuuq Olemaun
Barrow , AK USA -

Just taking the time to revisit this site again. You know, tomorrow(June 28) it will be 20 years ago that Dad died and buried on July 2, NSB Founders's Day!Just remembering Dad makes me feels good. Thanks, Jon and Thelma. Flossie Jay
Flossie Andersen <FAndersen@bbedc.com>
Dillingham, AK USA -

This is to cool to be true!!!!
Thomas Hopson <tlqhopson@hotmail.com>
Barrow, Ak USA -

Nice web site
Frieda Nageak Custodio <fmcustodio@hotmail.com>
Barrow, AK USA -

Interesting site!
Penny <deedaq@hotmail.com>
AK USA -

I am just about to discover a whole new world - a world of northern hunters, trappers, fishermen and gatherers. I happened to come across this website, and I'm glad I did! I very much would like to get in touch with people who share my intersets - or ARE! From a quite confused but eager student of Archaeology and Life Camilla Olofsson
Camilla Olofsson <colofhhh@hotmail.com>
Östersund, Sweden -

Great website!!!!
Rena Gologergen <rgologergen@hotmail.com>
Nome,, AK USA -

Excellent website on Uncle Eben! Thank you Charlie and Adeline, for telling me about the website when I approached you and told you that I had chosen to write about Eben for a college writing class. The assignment was to write about a lengendary figure from my family. Tuff choice for me; Hopson's are a huge family! To pick one was going to be a difficult because so many have attributed to great works up here in the North Slope! This website was incredible source and I'm truely proud to have chosen Eben.
Sandra Hopson Stuermer <stuermer@asrc.com>
Barrow, AK USA -

It's been a while since I visited this site. Great improvements. It was refreshing to read and remember all of the activities we were involved in, from establishing the ICC, to producing the Arctic Policy Review, to organizing the computerized GIS, and much much more. It was exciting for me just to be part of it all. Thanks. Ralph Andersen
Ralph Andersen <ralpha@bbna.com>
Dillingham, AK USA -

Wow! This is cool. Thanks for doing this website.
Deena Rae Akootchook <deenarae@hotmail.com>
Barrow, AK USA -

met captain hopson when he was commander of delta company of the old first scouts; was a newly commissioned lieutenant when i met him;; was in awe of him. met him again when i went to barrow on a recruiting trip on the slope; he was the borough mayor then. he was a great man. excellent tribute!
charles soxie (col. retired alaska army guard "eskimo scouts - eyes and ears of the arctic" <nsedcloa@nsedc.com>
anchorage, ak USA -

This is so awesome! I didn't know my Aapa did ALL of this.. I really like this. It has a lot of great info on him. I wish I got to know him. Thanks for doing this..
Emma Hopson <emmavera@hotmail.com>
Barrow, AK USA -

Wow! I was just browsing through and found this great website! Thank you very much for making it possible for others to read about Eben Hopson Sr. - Doreen R. Andersen
Doreen Andersen <da85738@ltu.edu>
Southfield, MI USA -

This is a hell of a great website.... but then, I expected that, having had the privilege of knowing Eben and the author of this website too. Keep up the good work
Margie Bauman <et@micronet.net>
Anchorage, Ak USA -

Hi. I came across your site while doing an assignment on assimilationist education policies. All I have seen so far is Eben's televised address regarding the school system in 1976. He was obviously a clear thinker, a forthright orator and a fighter for individual and national rights against attempts to subsume them into the national but alien culture. As a member of that same kind of culture in Australia, I find contacts like this unsettling. And I'm glad I do. Thank you for having this site. Kindest regards, Doug PS Can you make the 'State' field bigger? Not all states in the world are customarily abbreviated to 2 letters.
Doug Forrest <dougforrest@hotmail.com>
Canberra, AAC Australia -

Wow! I discovered this site by accident and wow, I am so awed and full of smiles! Thank you, Jon and Thelma-I knew it was somewhere but hadn't looked it up till I bumped into it. I will definitely read all about it every chance I get. How did you do it, Jon!? We give you all the credit. Please email me anytime. We love you all and miss you.
Flossie Jay Andersen <FAndersen@bbedc.com>
Dillingham, Ak USA -

Nice site very interesting I enjoyed it alot
Geoff Marshall
Grande Praire, USA -

Harriet Tubman Elementary School #138 is located in the urban area. We are interested in communicating with your school to learn how we can both perpetuate legacy of Harriet Tubman.
Catherine M. DeFord, Principal <CDEFORD@BCPS.k12.md.us>
Baltimore, Md USA -

Have book marked website so I can read all of it. He was a man of great character. WOW!
James Hopson <cchopson@alpha.nlu.edu>
West Monroe, LA USA -

Jon, just found out about this neat thing from his oldest child Charlie, didn't get to see the whole thing but will pass it on to our history teacher. Pretty good
susie leavitt frankson <sfrankson@arctic.nsbsd.k12.ak.us>
pt hope , ak USA -

Jon: Thank you for the above, have not gone thru it all but we are fortunate that you have produced this information for all to learn about a great leader. His eldest son says many thanks. Hello to Thelma. Mom Rebecca send greetings too.
Charles & Adeline Hopson <eskimo@barrow.com>
barrow, ak USA -

Good work. Very interesting man.
Jael <MsJael@yahoo.com>
USA -

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