1976 Press Photo Baton Rouge data processing executive Bill Gatipon - nob16421

North to Alaska is Bill Gatipon, a Baton Rouge data processing executive turned carpenter, Friday night at New Orleans International Airport. Gatipon will join six members of the Christian Brothers order in the tiny village of Scagway, Alaska, Saturday to begin constructing the town's only Catholic church. The temperature and precipitation there are considerably different, Gatipon said, and he's going prepared.

Photo is dated 1976.

Photo measures 8 x 10.25 inches.