2010 Annual Report University of Alaska Foundation Promise

Supporting UAF Hockey
Fran and John
Zarling
On winter weekends, you’ll find John and
Fran Zarling cheering on the UAF Hockey
team at the home games and even a few
away games. They made the trip to Massachusetts
in the spring of 2009 to watch the Alaska Nanooks
play in the NCAA tournament.
Fran and John Zarling, avid Nanook hockey fans,
support the team on and off the ice.
The Zarlings are avid hockey fans and are one of the longest
season ticket holders for Nanook Hockey. They have given generously to UAF for the past 28 years and
recently established the Zarling Family Hockey Scholarship. This fund will provide scholarships to UAF
hockey student athletes, with specific emphasis on students studying engineering at UAF. Their goal is to
build the endowed fund until it reaches $100,000. In less than a year’s time, they have nearly reached the
half-way point.
“We believe in UAF’s Division I hockey program and want to make a difference for Nanook hockey
players,” said John Zarling. He also said he hopes that his family’s contributions will inspire others to
contribute to programs that they feel most passionate about at UAF.
In 1976, Dr. John Zarling joined the UAF Mechanical Engineering Department where he taught until 1997,
specializing in arctic engineering. Since 1997 he has been teaching the arctic engineering course fall and
spring semesters for UAF’s Civil and Environmental Engineering Department as well as developing an
active consulting practice.
Previously, Dr. Zarling was a professor in Wisconsin, the state where he and Fran were both born and
raised. The Zarlings moved to Fairbanks to explore the adventures of the North, where they raised their
two sons and daughter.
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