On Christmas, I always remember how an old friend, Bill Tobin, used to include this "Christmas Tree" every year on the Anchorage Times editorial page.  I'm honored to carry on the tradition and reprint Bill's Christmas Tree below as a tribute to our great Alaska predecessors and as a commitment to honor and propagate their pioneering spirit.   (NGP Photo, holding Evangeline Atwood's book: Two years before his passing, Bill invited me to lunch at the Petroleum Club.  I took the opportunity to ask him to put a note in Evangeline's book, [...]