Alfred Richard King (1919-2005)
	
Richard King and two partners attempted to establish a new bush plane service in the north in 1939. Their plane crashed in Teslin Lake while they were enroute from the lower states to Alaska. The men were rescued by residents of Teslin and King spent six months in the community before returned to the States. After the Second World War, King graduated from Western Washington University and taught elementary school in Washington. In 1949, he started a five year stint teaching and administering the development of elementary school in Saipan and The Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands. In 1964, he received a PhD at Sanford in the fields of education and cultural anthropology. He spent 1963-64 as a fourth-grade teacher at the Chooutla Residential Schools in Carcross. He wrote a thesis and in 1967 published //The School at Mopass: a problem of identity// based on his thesis.((Yukon Archives, “A. Richard King” biographical sketch; A. Richard King, //The School at Mopass: A Probem of Identy.// Irvington Publishers Inc.,1982.))