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The Dalton
Highway is a 414-mile unpaved road
built atop the frozen tundra from
Fairbanks, Alaska, to the Arctic Ocean. It
was constructed in 1974 to service the
newly opened Alaskan oil fields and the
Trans-Alaska Pipeline. It is the most
isolated highway in the US and one of
the most dangerous roads in the world.
So Bryan made the trip on a motorcycle.
Three times. Starting from Chicago.
In 2006 the Dalton Highway was opened to
the public, and just 30 months later, our
speaker, Bryan Whitehead, resolved to
drive his motorcycle over these
still-frozen roads to
Deadhorse–essentially an industrial
compound servicing the burgeoning Alaskan
oil fields perched on the Arctic Ocean.
The Dalton Highway has been featured on
Discovery Channel’s Ice Road Truckers,
BBC’s The World’s Most Dangerous Roads,
and on The Long Way Around
documentary series, among others. Bryan
reports seeing herds of thousands of
caribou, musk oxen shedding their winter
coats, and arctic foxes scampering across
the tundra. Grizzly bears, he says, are
known to roam the hallways of the sleeping
facilities at night, knocking over trash
cans outside the rooms.
Bryan has made this trip three separate
times, with no two trips the same. In his
presentation, Bryan will talk about his
adventures and discuss the changes in the
environment that he has observed
from his first trip in 2009 up to his most
recent trip in 2016.
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FREE and
ONLINE
Tuesday, November 17, 2020
5:30-7:00 pm CDT
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Sign in 5:00-5:30 pm for
informal cigar and cocktail chatter.
The event will be
called to order at 5:30.
There will be a Q&A session
following the lecture. Audience
participation is invited.
The event will conclude at 7 pm.
An optional cocktail party and
discussion will continue after the
event.
Be sure to have your
cocktails and cigars at ready
hand.
After you
register for the event, look for Order
Confirmation email from Eventbrite.
Scroll to the bottom of the message for a
link to the video conference, and other
instructions.
From the Order Confirmation email you can
also save the event to your online
calendar
and later join the video conference from
the link automatically provided in the
calendar entry.
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Bryan
Whitehead is executive
director of the Cigar Society of
Chicago, and for the past year,
he has been a founding partner
at The Flowershop LLP. For the
previous 20+ years, Bryan had
executive-level positions at
Stout, PricewaterhouseCoopers,
and Ernst & Young, where he
was responsible for penetrating
selected accounts, developing
and coaching internal service
teams, and creating and
sustaining professional
relationships with C-level
executives at these accounts
while giving special attention
to key services
areas related to risk
mitigation, SEC compliance,
tax structuring and
compliance, IT Strategy and
Security, and general
business consulting services.
Earlier he had positions at
several firms in San Jose, where
he was also founder and CEO of a
company that developed and
marketed computerized automotive
service systems. Bryan has a BSB
in organizational design,
marketing, and political science
from the University of
Minnesota, and an MBA from
DePaul University.
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About
the
Cigar Society of Chicago
ONE OF THE OLDEST AND
greatest traditions of the city clubs of
Chicago is the discussion of intellectual,
social, legal, artistic, historical,
scientific, musical, theatrical, and
philosophical issues in the company of
educated, bright, and appropriately
provocative individuals, all under the
beneficent influence of substantial
amounts of tobacco and spirits. The
Cigar Society of Chicago
embraces this tradition and extends it
with its Informal Smokers, University
Series lectures, and Cigar
Society Dinners, in which cigars,
and from time to time pipes and
cigarettes, appear as an important
component of our version of the classical
symposium. To be included in the
Cigar Society's mailing list, write to the
secretary at
curtis.tuckey@logicophilosophicus.org
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